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- Movie: Love Exposure
- Romaji: Ai no Mukidashi
- Japanese: 愛のむきだし
- Director: Sion Sono
- Writer: Sion Sono
- Producer: Yutaka Morohashi
- Cinematography: Souhei Tanigawa
- Action Design: Tak Sakaguchi
- Release Date: January 31, 2009
- Runtime: 237 min
- Genre: Drama / Romance
- Distirbutor: Phantom Film
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
"Love Exposure" tells an epic tale of love, family, religion, and sex.
Yu Tsunoda and Yoko meet under the most unusual of circumstances. After Yu loses a bet with his friends he agrees to go into the city dressed as a woman and kiss the first woman he sees. When they go into the city Yu and his friends comes across a young teenage girl named Yoko who is surrounded by a group of thugs. Yu, still dressed as a woman, then helps Yoko beat up the gang of thugs. Afterwards Yu kisses Yoko and runs away. Yu for the first time falls in love with a girl, but Yoko falls in love with the woman in drag known only as Miss Scorpion.
Meanwhile, Yu is being followed by Aya Koike, a member of the cult group "Zero Church." Aya Koike devises a plan to bring Yu's entire family into the "Zero Church," but first she will gain the favor of Yoko by masquerading as Miss Scorpion.
Cast
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Takahiro Nishijima Yu Tsunoda - 17 year old high school student. Yu looks for love from his father (who is a priest) , but his father has become emotionally detached from him. Because of this Yu starts to commit sins to regain his attention. During this time, Yu falls in love with a girl named Yoko. Yoko will later move into Yu's house to become his possible future step-sister.
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Hikari Mitsushima Yoko - As a young girl Yoko was emotionally & perhaps sexually abused by her father. When her father brings home a new woman named Saori, Yoko becomes attached to Saori's free spirited ways and follows her when she leaves her father for the Roman Catholic priest Tetsu.
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Atsuro Watabe Tetsu Tsunoda - Yu's father and a Roman Catholic priest. After he loses his wife to a terminal disease, he finds love once again with a fee spirited woman named Kaori. But, Kaori eventually leaves Tetsu and Tetsu falls into deep despair. During this time, Tetsu becomes emotionally detached from his own son Yu.
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Makiko Watanabe Kaori Fujiwara - Kaori is a free spirited woman who one day appears in Tetsu's church. Kaori then throws herself onto Tetsu and they eventually become a couple. Because of Tetsu's refusal to reveal their relationship to the public at large, she leaves Tetsu to find a new boyfriend who has a teenage daughter named Yoko. Later, Kaori leaves her new boyfriend to return to Tetsu, but brings along Yoko.
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Sakura Ando Aya Koike - Aya Koike was emotionally, physically, and sexually abused by her father. She eventually joins a religios cult group named "Church Zero." Saori then comes across Yu Tsunoda and becomes attracted to his unique mannerisms. Saori later hatches a plan to bring Yu's entire family into the Church Zero clan.
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