Love Exposure

(2008)

★ 7.9 IMDb · 535 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Year: 2008

Runtime: 237 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 園子温

Cast: 西島隆弘, Хикари Мицусима, Сакура Андо, 渡辺真起子, 渡部篤郎, Ютака Симидзу, 尾上寛之, 永岡佑, 広澤草, 玄覺悠子

Plot

The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing - which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian - dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.

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.