Love Exposure: Four Hours of Fun and Suffering -- Asian Oddities

[@NeanderdeOliveira]

I have proudly spent more than 24 hrs of my life watching this film and showing it to friends, having seen it more than 6 times by now. It’s epic. Sincere. Naive. Crude.

[@gabzpot]

I would watch the 6 hour cut, easy. This movie is perfect. My favourite movie of all time.

[@UnownDepth]

Me tooo

[@sunset-inn]

Does it exist?

[@lnaimagirlbtw5399]

@@sunset-inn the 6 hours?

[@sunset-inn]

@@lnaimagirlbtw5399 yes

[@lnaimagirlbtw5399]

@@sunset-inn not sure

[@mmmmmmeeeeee]

I would GLADLY sit through another two hours as well. What a shame that I probably will never be able to see those two cut hours.

[@X_Jack1995_X]

now it's on netflix, check it out :)

[@石川俊也-e2u]

Filthy Koreaboo

[@aramwatters]

@@石川俊也-e2u lol

[@karlacuevas3700]

@@X_Jack1995_X really?

[@ghostland8646]

the tv series version came out a few year back with 30 mins of extra footage

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

I think you forgot that Yu isn't really a pervert, except when it comes to Yoko.

[@dondake3409]

This movie is more Pulp Fiction than Pulp Fiction.

[@kazghost]

A 4 hour Japanese pulp fiction. is probably the perfect way to describe this movie.

[@leo--4341]

and clockwork orang

[@aaronshouting588]

Pulp Fiction is a Disney movie compared to Love Exposure

[@sssparda9065]

That doesn't even make sense is the only other film you've seen pulp fiction ?

[@Shadowfredd99]

​@sssparda9065 fr and tarantino stole so much from Asian cinema , least know Asian movies. He is great known and has no shame.

[@Raider577]

I just saw a Japanese film from 1972 called 'Female prisoner 70 Scorpion' its the first one in four films. This is what Yu's character Miss Scorpion is based on. The long hair black cape and hat.

[@claretravels783]

I watched this once back in the day, it did feel a little long but I also couldn't tear my eyes away. It's very memorable. I ought to watch more of this guy's films from the sounds of it!

[@a.c.7573]

Watch suicide club next! It's on youtube

[@TurtleGamers1]

If you want a feeling of pitch-black emptiness check out Cold Fish by him. For another good comedy movie check out Why Don't You Play In Hell? He's great.

[@jmarvins]

Literally the only film I've ever seen that gets across powerfully both 1) how Christianity of all sorts can absolutely fuck up your psychosexual development irreversibly, and 2) the analogies between exterior cult social dynamics and interior manipulative thinking As someone who grew up in Evangelical Hell, I have never seen another piece of media get across that bizarre complex one develops of feeling like one *needs to sin* so forgiveness keeps flowing

[@Hoopladoopa]

Years back this was the first film I ever saw from Sion Sono. I can only describe this film as a 4-hour wild rollercoaster ride. Such a gem. Why Don't You Play In Hell (2013) is another one of my favorites. That is such a fun film to watch as well.

[@TheBigBoatman]

Also one of my favourites, after watching it for the second time all I could think was, 'Oh I wish they released the six hour cut'. It really does keep you entertained throughout. I think it is a film most people can get something from, but trying to convince someone to watch a 4 hour film is a challenge within itself lol.

[@yupp7352]

best movie ever tbh. i would like him to get more recognition. he is fucking genious

[@stephennootens916]

I remember the first Sion Sono movie I ever saw, it was Suicide Club. I heard about it from some movie reviewer if I remember right and saw the dvd at a blockbuster when we still had those. I loved it and bought it the first chance I got. It wasn't until later when I found out he had made more movies and some of them came state side, one of them was Love Exposure which I also thought was amazing in a whole different way. It's the kind of movie that's so wild and out there that I can't imagine it being make anywhere but in Japan.

[@dein_fu9924]

where did you watch suicide club?? sorry to ask

[@stephennootens916]

@@dein_fu9924 it use to be on DVD way back when which is how I saw it

[@josephjacob8223]

Made it ten minutes into this video before pausing and returning four hours later to watch the last 6 mins. What an emotional movie.

[@crimsonhead100]

4 hours is too short for this movie

[@dmilhouse1511]

Moishe Ham big facts

[@kingkongmalunggay]

that's why in Netflix, it is serialized into a 10-episode drama series.

[@matheuscamargo2682]

1 month for a 6 hours movie, that is insane

[@TMTLive]

One of the very few films I'd call a wild ride in the /a/ sense. I absolutely loved it too.

[@withnail-and-i]

What's /a/

[@cometcourse381]

The anime board on 4chan.

[@withnail-and-i]

Haha then yes it is

[@Peccadillo]

Great to see a video on Love Exposure! I'm glad you point out what really sets this film apart as something special. I saw the movie a month ago and, while I prefer the first half to the second, I think it's truly spectacular. I'd recommend that everyone who likes Love Exposure check out the manga Oyasumi Punpun, a coming-of-age perverted romance with a weird cult. It's not just the overt similarities, but themes of love, broken families, and suffering that tie them together.

[@UnownDepth]

This movie was lit. I don't notice 4 hours was passed. Feel like 2 hours

[@vitorrocha6147]

Definitely my favorite movie of all time!

[@christophermacintyre5890]

Don't you just hate it when someone steals your pants, pretends to be Scorpion, and never tells God?

[@andrerichardsousa]

4:17 i remember that interview, that woman was very wrong, the movie kind change after 2 hours and everything takes a new turn. Don't know what she was taking about.

[@dani4ever]

Wrong or not, it wasn't the place for that remark. It sounds like she felt entitled to some kind of retribution for sitting through it.

[@ALeaud]

Mr. Sono was an English student at the school I worked at. He was super weird and the teachers were a bit scared of him lol

[@itscrystalclear17]

Yuu doesn't commit sins because he craves attention. He had to commit them in order to be able to confess to his father. It was his father's problem not Yuu's

[@estebanchaires7190]

Agree. Sion Sono is a monster. Great video, btw.

[@felixfox8810]

I feel like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Memories Of Matsuko and Love Exposure all belong into the same class of extra-weird, extra-profound epics about love and the human condition. All three left me deeply impressed.

[@sssparda9065]

eeaao is a reductionist a24 flick lol

[@amitojsingh7583]

Except everything everywhere all at once is overrated trash multiverse film with MCU one liners and internet pop referencz

[@evanparrafx]

One of the best movies ever made.

[@ebnrong]

One of my all time favorite movies.

[@epinhervin9355]

It's so weird because the first time I watched Hikari Mitsushima was at "normal" j-dorama Ohisama along with Mao Inoue and Maiko Tsumabuki. They were mesmerizing teenager at world war II era

[@flxydd]

this movie, and himizu changed the way i looked at movies

[@BlazeTheilTheAwesomeMan]

My favorite movie ever

[@redeagle605]

Love exposure: 3hrs56mins long.. Lord of the rings 3: *YOU SHALL NOT PASS!*

[@TheReMorseCode]

I watched this movie because of this review (because I wanted to watch it with the context of the movie, I mean.) It was a good decision lol I loved it

[@heilong79]

I remember this film, it was epic.

[@jakesouthgate2676]

One of my favourite movies ever

[@someone.89]

0:52 i was eating

[@Nowhy]

Do one thing at a time...

[@poolmoorang]

XD

[@geezus4418]

Well it seems like sion sono had his own “love exposure” recently lol.

[@Gibsoncustom89]

Saw it 11 years ago and it instantly made my top 5. Hasn't moved an inch since. When I first saw it, immediately showed my buddy & we actually got depressed after. Screw that avatar world depression people got, this made any other movies seem bad for a month or two after the first time. Sounds like an exaggeration but I seriously had to take a month off movies after this in 2010. BTW, anyone know where to get the 6 hour? I only found this movie (and Sion sono) randomly floating around an Asian movie torr site. Great job on the video, man. It's REALLY hard to break this one down & cut it up the way you did, & still leave room in the plot for the first timers. I was tempted to do a faith, hope and love thematic dissection for film class but it got to 30 pages and was looking at another 30 so I had to scrap it. I'm subbed now. 👍

[@RapBattle]

godlike movie

[@jayfolk]

ever consider a little black book video? a list video of go to japanese directors, actors, musicians, fx artists, editors, and DPs?

[@ZettaiJapan]

Not really my typical style of video, but not a bad idea.Thanks!

[@Pelztheo]

Can you make/analyse about sion sono guilty of romance please

[@mavrosskylos2989]

nice review. yet you should really volume up your voice

[@justemichel]

Would a movie with no blood, no sex and no villain be weird or obscure enough ? If so : Kimi no na wa - aka Your Name. Or else Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue

[@ygsr]

How are those obscure in any sense of the word?

[@nachtgoblin]

One of my most favorite japanese movies and hidden gems is University of Laughs (Warai no Daigaku) by Kōki Mitani, I seriously wish you could do a review about this! thankyou

[@EntropyAcolyte]

Loved the first half; the second half, not so much.

[@zyke5196]

Frank The Bunny not me. Loved every second of it.

[@tihanny_shino2660]

i stop watching this movie halfway.. i couldnt take it 💆🏻‍♀️

[@jesperperttunen6269]

Dude stop saying "fkin" all The time its really cringy

[@geezus4418]

Fucking snowflake lol.

[@jesperperttunen6269]

Sorry this video is really bad

[@geezus4418]

Nobody gives a shit

[@vibin9476]

care to say why and give some actual constructive criticism ? you gave the feedback but no actual reason why

[@abraxasfraxinus7744]

He's a kid and is afraid of curse words.