Year: 2008
Duration: 237'
After his wife dies, Yu’s father takes vows. Eccentric Kaori, who is infatuated with him, forces him to leave the Church but then, unsatisfied, she leaves him. Yu tries to shake his father out of his apathy by confessing make-believe sins. But when the man discovers the truth he decides to learn a martial art which lets him take surreptitious photographs of the intimate parts of girls. The young man becomes interested in the Zero Church sect and falls in love with Yoko, the daughter of Kaori, who in the meantime has come back into their lives, further complicating the situation. “For Love Exposure it took two and a half years to write the script. In the beginning the freak elements were too strong, and I was thinking that no one would watch this, so that is why I added a lot of elements and it became the script that it is today. The peek-a-panty photo shooting story became the pillar, sacred and secular, sex and abstinence, Christianity and religious cults, I wanted to create conflicts of various elements, and I developed the script.”
Biography
film director
Sion Sono
Sion Sono (Toyokawa, Japan, 1961) is an internationally acclaimed Japanese filmmaker. His movies depict Japanese society in a provocative and violent way, amid a plethora of pop culture references. His most renown films include Suicide Club (2002), which is part of a trilogy on alienation along with Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005), winner of the Berliner Zeitung Jury Award, and Love Exposure (2008), winner of the FIPRESCI Award and the Caligari Film Award at the Berlinale. Love Exposure is also the first film of the “trilogy of hate,” which includes Cold Fish (2010) and Guilty of Romance (2011). He participated to the Venice Film Festival in 2011 with the feature Himizu, and in 2013 with Why Don’t You Play in Hell. The Torino Film Festival paid tribute to him with a retrospective in 2011. He participated in several TFF editions with his films Tokyo Tribe (2014), Love & Peace (2015), TAG (2015) and Shinjuku Swan (2015).
FILMOGRAFIA
The Room (1992), Suicide Club (2002), Noriko’s Dinner Table (2005), Strange Circus (2005), Hazard (2006), Exte: Hair Extensions (2007), Love Exposure (2008), Cold Fish (2010), Guilty of Romance (2011), Himizu (2011), Why Don’t You Play in Hell (2013), Tokyo Tribe (2014), Love & Peace (2015), Riaru onigokko (TAG, 2015), Shinjuku suwan (Shinjuku Swan, 2015), Antiporno (2016), Tokyo Vampire Hotel (serie tv/tv series, 2017).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay
Sion Sono
fotografia/cinematography
Tanigawa Sohei
montaggio/film editing
Ito Jun’ichi
scenografia/production design
Matsuzuka Takashi
costumi/costume design
Matsumoto Chieko
musica/music
Harada Tomohide
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Nishijima Takahiro (Yu), Mitsushima Hikari (Yoko), Ando Sakura (Koike), Watanabe Makiko (Kaori), Atsuro Watanabe (Tetsu)
produttore/producer
Haruo Umekawa
produzione/production
Omega Project
coproduzione/coproduction
Studio 3
vendita all’estero/world sales
Phantom Film
