Love Exposure

– After Yu's mother dies his father, a priest, only seems to take solace in the confessions of his son..

Type:
TVSeries
Rating:
8.10 / 10
Duration:
3 Hours and 57 Minutes
Release Year:
2008
Original Name:
愛のむきだし
Love Exposure (2008) - Also known as 愛のむきだし

After Yu's mother dies his father, a priest, only seems to take solace in the confessions of his sons sins causing Yu to partake in various 'sinful' activities to appease him. This is a teen love story as only the Japanese could bring us, complete with up-skirt photography, cross dressing, and bloody gore.

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Love Exposure (2008) - Trailer

Release Date:

31 Jan 2009

Language:

Japanese

MPAA Content-Rating:
Unrated

Director:

Sion Sono

Writer:

Sion Sono (screenplay), Sion Sono (story)

Main Actors:

Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu

Plot:

Three emotionally abused people from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Yuu, a Catholic boy searching for true love ends up taking erotic photographs of women in public until he discovers Yoko, whom he sees as his Virgin Mary. Yoko, an antifamily, misandristic girl finds that her foster mother will be marrying Yuu's father. Koike, an "original sinner", coordinates a plan to convert Yuu's family to her cult. Under her careful direction, their lives come crashing together in one fateful street fight.

Awards:

17 wins & 2 nominations.

Production:

Omega Project

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
Metacritic:
78%