Love Exposure
is a 2008 Japanese comedy-drama film written and directed by Sion Sono. The film gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its four-hour runtime and themes including love, family, lust, religion and the art of upskirt photography. The first version was originally six hours long, but was trimmed at the request of the producers.
Plot
Yū Honda is a Catholic teenager attempting to live his life faithfully. His father, Tetsu, has become a devout Catholic priest following the death of Yū's mother and operates his own church. Tetsu asks Yū to confess his sins, but Yū believes he is a good person who has little to confess. To appease his father, he makes up sins but his father sees right through him so Yū becomes obsessed with committing real sins. Yū befriends other boys and is taught to steal, fight, and take stealth photographs up women's skirts. Yū promptly becomes a skilled "panty shot" photographer. Though perceived as a pervert, he is never aroused by these photographs.
More details
author | Sion Sono |
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contentLocation | Japan |
director | Sion Sono |
editor | Junichi Ito |
genre | action comedy-drama thriller |
keywords | abuse alter ego being followed build car driving catholic catholic priest claim confess confession cult drive first time follow kidnap mental hospital miss scorpion obsess perversion pervert priest psychiatric hospital run sexual abuse sexually abused stealth photographs up women\'s skirts suicide surround taking a picture upskirt virgin mary |
musicBy | Tomohide Harada |
producer | Haruo Umekawa |
publisher | Phantom Film |
recordedAt | Tokyo |
theme | independent japanese romantic comedy splatter |