Here's a hint, don't watch the trailer, dont read a summary, just watch the movie, everything else may make it seem worser. It may be 4hrs but it sucks you in for the WHOLE thing, so it seems far far shorter. I was driven away from it by the perversion and inapropriateness of this movie at first, but while watching it, that was not a bother. Pretty much all of the good comments express how I feel about this movie...

the story is quite original, but the acting, editing, and pacing are all subpar

I cannot not recommend this.

A 4 hour film about perverts, cults, love and religion that is NEVER boring and really very, very affecting and somehow sweet. To give this anything lower would be a crime in my eyes, it was a pleasure and a marvel from start to finish and it's so perverse it's beautiful! To pull this off takes balls and huge amounts of talent and quite simply, it's one of the best films I've ever seen.

Sono gives himself free rein to shift gears at the drop of a hat, and amazingly it doesn't end up an incoherent mess. In fact, somehow the more ridiculous it gets, the more you start to take it seriously. There's an awful lot of thematic ground covered here. Despite the hefty length, the movie is never dull, mixing up styles and tones in a way that keeps you wondering what will happen next. Comedy and action and melodrama bleed together effortlessly. Fantastic, complex and very entertaining.

This movie is absolutely insane. I went into it knowing nothing about it, but I think it benefited from that. Everything felt like a crazy dream, but remained completely coherent. Not once during the 4 hour running time was I bored, it just flowed.

"Ai no mukidashi" is outrageously enjoyable. It is absolutely mental and the characters are totally ridiculous, but strangely totally believable!? Miraculously and completely unfathomably Sono manages to make this movie comic, dark, violent, touching, beautiful, silly and emotionally effective; with the whole range of these effects sometimes occurring within moments of each other. It's four compelling hours of perverts, erections, camel toes, cults, blood, guts and love! Hugely recommeded.

Wow. I had no idea this was 4 hours long until I got to the end of the first half, but I have to say that it kept my attention the whole time. The appearance of Scorpion, the spurting blood, and panty-picture kung-fu is the hook for you basement dwellers, but this is really a love story at heart. Cheesy in some places, silly in others, it is very watchable for such a long movie.

It's simply one-of-a-kind. For better or worse, no future movie will come close to being like Love Exposure. The viewer who sits through all of it is rewarded with a cinematic experience unlike any other.

I'm not even sure how I can summarize this 4 hour long Japanese tragic romance/comedy/kung fu movie that won't just totally sell it short, so I won't bother trying. It's inventive, energetic and funny with a dominant theme of love and acceptance, and at the same time incredibly dark and violent. If you're thinking of watching it, be aware that it features more upskirt panty fetish imagery than every high school anime I've ever seen combined. And it's 4 hours long. Totally unique.

"Sion Sono does a 4 hour crazy Miike flick with some underlying depth... Lots of melodrama, teenage-chic craziness, panty-fu, girls beating up men, religious nihilism and love triangle drama ensue, with equal parts satirical catharsis and warped mania, including sympathy for the perverts and spiritual hard-ons. A one-of-a-kind entertaining but warped experience."

"Love Exposure is, in a sense, Shion Sono's equivalent of the Great Russian novel." - Simon Abrams

No other film comes close to the experience of Love Exposure. At four hours long, it feels like you're watching a full season of an incredible TV comedy/drama. Not one minute feels slow, it's fully entertaining and features more upskirt panty shots than any other film or pornography video. It's wild, fun, perverse, and incredibly funny. Sion Sono is amazing.

Crazy, unique, funny, dramatic and most of all enjoyable. It manages to keep the same high level of entertainment throughout the entire 4 hour duration.

Coulda been close to amazing with higher production values (it has a quite cheap look to it) and some trimming; either way, it is genuinely entertaining and just a good time. And the Yoko girl is pretty and and the film is batshit insane and overambitious and I enjoyed it. Recommended.

One look at the colorful and eccentric nature of Sion Sono should give you a fair representation of his thought process. The man rejects convention, and Love Exposure speaks volumes about this sentiment. Sono spends much of the four hour runtime jabbing at man's insecure, sheep-like nature-- our desire for guidance and reassurance. Stylishly captured and somehow consistently engaging, Love Exposure is undoubtedly going to be heralded as Sono's finest film to date.

A 4 hour running time is only 1 of the reasons this gleefully perverse love story is an utterly unique experience. It clearly has an anti-religion agenda (specifically christianity) but will challenge more than that by the time it's done. Despite a running time that should be excruciating 2 sit through, this is faaaar from dull, briskly moving through a ton of story, full of bizarre, yet somehow relatable characters ; as well as more plot twists & clever ideas than u can shake an erection at.

Everyone's exposed to love in Love Exposure, but the greatest joy is that director Shion Sono's film is exposed to the viewing public. It's a daunting prospect - a four-hour Japanese film - going in, but one made fully worth it by Sono's engaging approach to the material, one that makes Love Exposure a mixture of drama and humour that provokes multiple readings in its numerous, often cartoonish representations of its titular theme and in its fantastic use of some pretty pristine imagery.

Starting as a conventional love story, the film breaks apart into an increasingly hilarious, completely insane, and unpredictable series of events and characters.The level of sex and blood is mind-boggling, and most of the time, completely unexpected.Half the time, it is also hysterically funny, weird,and mixed with dream sequences and surrealist images.None of this would work so well if the film weren't also well-written and damn funny,with a great core story. Unlike any film I have ever seen.

I was not expecting this from the same guy who did Suicide Club

Pretty damn weird movie. Radically different. In its unpredictability, it feels almost like the product of one of those "each participant continues the story-games". It certainly doesn't feel four hours long. Sono draws some nice performances from the leads and explores major themes. In some scenes he lacks the technical ability (or the budget), in others restraint. Like his previous film 'Suicide Club', it's both interesting and flawed. See it if you're in the mood for something unconventional.

Bizarre and funny, sad and critical or to put it in a simple way: a unique movie.

Bizarre doesn't even begin to describe this roller coaster. Four hours of laughs, blank stares, empathetic responses and a final, earth shattering erection make this movie one well worth seeing.

A 4 hour fun ride about love, perversness and weirdness. So many twists, and it's never boring. It's full of awesomeness!