Customer Ratings & Reviews

Decent movie for those looking for something different than your typical Hollywood action flick

Good movie. 2K: average. SDR: average. Audio: average.

Genre: Comedy, Action Length: 3 hours, 57 minutes "Having grown in a devout Christian family and desperate to please his sin-obsessed Catholic priest father, young Yu (Takahiro Nishijima# a fairly normal kid who has no legitimate sins to confess decides to take on sinning big time and becomes a master of up-skirt photography while perfecting his ninja moves required to get just the right angle on his subjects. Things become complicated when our drag-clad hero meets the woman of his dreams; the man-hating Yoko #Hikari Mitsushima#, who's involved in all-out street brawl and beating up a gang of men. This four-hour epic was a new york times critics' pick and winner of the prestigious caligari and fipresci prize awards at the 2009 berlin film festilval. Directed by the great Sion Sono #Suicide Club#." Epic is definitely a word that can be used to describe Love Exposure. Pulling in at just under 4 hours, it's the longest movie that I've ever watched. I told myself that I would watch 2 hours one night and the other 2 hours the next, but I liked it so much that I just watched it all in one sitting. I might have been a little zombified for work the next day, but it was worth it! Being nearly 4 hours long, the plot in this one is built up extremely well. You're exposed to every single thing that happens to Yu and how he's driven from being a normal Catholic school boy into a perverted delinquent. The same also applies to his love-at-first-sight, Yoko and Aya, the recruiter for the Zero Church. All of the characters are seeking their own unique idea of a family as they try to overcome obstacles in their lives. Yu can only confess his love to Yoko while he's cross-dressing as Ms. Scorpion which just adds to his troubles. The ending almost felt a little rushed which is hard to say with it being 4 hours long! However, it looks like it was originally almost 6 hours long but was trimmed down. That's one heck of a movie! This one only has Japanese audio with English subtitles as it's an import movie. If you don't like reading, you probably want to skip on this one unless you can understand Japanes. Sadly, there aren't any extras on the disc. I would have liked to have seen the 2 hours that were cut from the final version. Enjoy!