Love exposure

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Movie
German title Love exposure
Original title 愛 の む き だ し ( Ai no Mukidashi )
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Publishing year 2008
length 237 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Sion Sono
production Omega Project / An Entertainment / Studio Three Co.
music Tomohide Harada
camera Sohei Tanikawa
cut Junichi Ito
occupation
chronology

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Love Exposure ( Japanese 愛 の む き だ し , Ai no Mukidashi , "exposure of love") is a Japanese film from 2008 by Sion Sono . At the Berlinale 2009 he received the FIPRESCI award in the young film category .

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Yu ( Takahiro Nishijima from the band AAA ) grew up in a strict Catholic family. His mother dies and his father becomes a pastor. Yu will soon have to make confession every day, but he has hardly anything to confess, is ashamed of it and deliberately produces sins. So he becomes a "pervert" and tries to perfect photography under skirts with his friends. When one day he loses a bet, he has to walk around in women's clothes all day, call himself Sasori and kiss a girl in disguise. He meets Yoko ( Hikari Mitsushima ). He falls in love with her and she falls in love with his role, Sasori. It is by chance that the pastor and Yoko's mother fall in love and move in together. Yu and Yoko become siblings, but Yoko, who despises men and thus Yu, has no idea that her great love is actually her stepbrother. Chaos arises in which sect recruiter Aya Koike ( Sakura Ando ) from the "Zero Church" sneaks into the family's life by pretending to be Sasori. Yu sees through her game, but Koike manages to get rid of Yu and kidnap the family to the remote Zero Church training camp, where they are brainwashed . Yu wants to free the immortally loved Yoko and follows the instructions that he will soon receive from Zero Church. After an unsuccessful rescue attempt with the help of his perverted friends, he himself joins the Zero Church in order to get at Yoko. Soon he runs amok in the sect headquarters, blows up half the building and finally finds Yoko and the family. The police became aware of the sect through the bomb. The sect is dissolved; Yu is arrested, goes crazy and is sent to an institution. From then on, Yoko lives with relatives, with whom at some point she confesses her love for Yu and decides to save him. When she visits him in the institution, he no longer recognizes her and also no longer knows who he is. Yoko rioted in the institution and was arrested. But just a few minutes after her visit, Yu suddenly finds herself again, recalls. He breaks out and runs after the police car in which Yoko is sitting. He destroys the pane with his elbow. In the last shot, they shake hands through the window.

Reviews

“'Love Exposure' is a small marvel, stylistically, in terms of content and visually. Sion Sono ("Strange Circus"), one of the rebels in Japanese cinema, does not adhere to any conventions, be they content or aesthetics. In a half-hour sequence, he shows how the friendly and nice boy Yu develops into the king of photo voyeurs in Tokyo. In a colorful, quick montage, the tricks and acrobatic acts with which he photographs the schoolgirls under their skimpy skirts are becoming increasingly daring. He then sits down with his boys and they evaluate their prey - just like in a car quartet: the best picture stands out. Sion Sono is not afraid to accompany Yu's 'training' as a voyeur with a good 30 minutes of Ravel's 'Bolero' at a time. "

- arte

“A great cinema opera, which in its form runs contrary to all habits, breaks every frame. Because how do you want to describe such an experience, how to summarize a film that is four hours long, and at the same time, there is no other way to put it, quite entertaining? Love Exposure mixes the incompatible, at least at first glance: Catholicism and sexual perversion, Beethoven and Japanese pop, martial arts and romanticism, religious sectarianism and libertarian sentiments, sin and innocence. The point at which it all meets and unites is the only one that is capable of it: love. Because in all its wonderful, motley madness of forms, Love Exposure is a very classic and rather simple love story. "

- Rüdiger Suchsland / FAZ

“Until the priest's son Yu (great: Takahiro Nashijima) and his dream wife Yoko finally find each other, director Sion Sono ('Strange Circus') unleashes an almost four-hour dance of love - peppered with Japanese pop culture quotes and insane attacks on moral dances such as religion and family. An intoxicating borderline experience for cinema-goers who are keen to experiment. "

- Alex Attimonelli ( Cinema )

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Others

Yoko quotes the “ Song of Songs of Love ” from Beethoven's 7th Symphony from the first letter to the Corinthians.

Yus alter ego Sasori is the title character of a women's prison film exploitation series from the 1970s, which in turn goes back to a manga character ( Sasori - Scorpion ). When Yu appears as Sasori , he wears her iconographic clothing (black cape, slouch hat, sunglasses).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cinema .de: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Love Exposure )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cinema.de

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