Ai no mukidashi

Ai no mukidashi

2008
Romance, Comedy
3h 57m
Forced to confess his sins by his priest father, Yu devotes himself to wrongdoing and becomes a legend of sneak photography. Then he meets Yoko, and becomes involved with a mysterious religious cult... (filmex.net)
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Ai no mukidashi

2008
Romance, Comedy
3h 57m
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Rated 12 Mar 2011
100
99th
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.
Rated 23 Nov 2011
96
99th
"Ai no mukidashi" is outrageously enjoyable. It's 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 recommended.
Rated 25 Nov 2009
80
77th
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.
Rated 16 Jul 2009
90
88th
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.
Rated 01 Nov 2014
8
98th
filmmaking that's perverse and deranged, wise and compassionate, almost beyond belief. one of the most genuinely and comprehensively subversive films i've ever seen.
Rated 25 Dec 2011
91
95th
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.
Rated 20 Jul 2011
90
95th
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.
Rated 05 May 2017
84
94th
That was one of the most insane 4 hours I've ever experienced... and I liked it! It's like the director decided to give a big middle finger to every film convention imaginable to create one of the most ridiculous films in existence.
Rated 06 Feb 2014
50
43rd
Unusual pro-perversion movie, but too hysterical for this viewer's taste, and the final hour is very drawn out. Sion Sono has said he hates Ozu, and this is, indeed, about as far from the world of Ozu as it is possible to get, both in terms of art and in terms of the representation of society and family. That some audiences would love it is understandable. But I'll take Ozu. Also, the Allegretto movement of Beethoven's 7th always works, but could it be that we have now reached saturation point?
Rated 20 Apr 2010
90
95th
A 4 hour fun ride about love, pervertedness and weirdness. So many twists, and it's never boring. It's full of awesomeness!
Rated 02 Feb 2012
73
77th
The spirit of Oshima and Imamura is alive and well in this sprawling youth vs. society film. Not sure it all hangs together, but parts of it are brilliant.
Rated 07 Nov 2011
90
97th
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.
Rated 08 Nov 2016
40
17th
Far too silly to justify the running time.
Rated 28 Jul 2012
6
95th
I will watch every Sion Sono flick in the hopes that he will one day match (or, if its at all possible, outdo) the creative frenzy he displays here.
Rated 29 Aug 2015
90
98th
This film has everything: kung-fu, revenge, comedy of error, romantic drama, religious satire, Japan culture satire. But in the center of all of that, there is one big statement: love is an erection, and it's not a perversion.
Rated 08 Jun 2011
72
78th
I cannot not recommend this.
Rated 29 Oct 2011
90
95th
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.
Rated 28 Feb 2010
60
50th
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.
Rated 29 Nov 2010
80
84th
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.
Rated 23 Apr 2012
95
98th
Love is... a four hour Japanese epic about religious guilt, emotional impotence, existential loneliness and pneumatic hard-ons. Or something like that. A truly original film that's oddly profound at times, occasionally quite touching, frequently very funny, but mainly just bonkers. I'll never hear Ravel's Bolero in the same way again.
Rated 27 May 2011
10
99th
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...
Rated 14 Dec 2015
5
91st
The quickest four-hour movie I've ever seen, packed wall-to-wall with offbeat and subversive humor, goofy action and stirring melodrama, while managing to cohere each of its disparate tones into a unified criticism/celebration of love, religiosity, family, and the resultant conflicts within and between each. That may sound hifalutin for a movie that's essentially a rom-com about a man-hating lesbian and the panty-shotting cross-dresser that falls for her, but this has to be seen to be believed.
Rated 23 Mar 2013
93
93rd
I just don't even know what to do with this. I don't know what it says about religion, about people, about panty-peeking, about loneliness... an erection is the climax of the film, and the cinematic equivalent of Ode to Joy. My heart skipped a beat. Fucking a.
Rated 10 Nov 2011
81
70th
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.
Rated 08 Dec 2010
76
74th
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.
Rated 13 May 2013
72
68th
As others have mentioned, it's an absurd story with no shortage of weirdness. The story is great and it's able to successfully cover a variety of themes in its 4 hour run time. Where it loses points is in its editing and overall silliness. I liked that it was silly to an extent. Were it more serious, the audience would not be on board with the horrible characters. But it became slapstick at times with the editing and overacting. Either way, it's one of a kind and worth checking out.
Rated 10 Jun 2017
100
68th
This is cinema.
Rated 03 May 2010
80
62nd
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.
Rated 30 Sep 2012
53
52nd
Definitely the best Sono I've seen so far; it may well in fact be a minor masterpiece. In all three of the Sono films I've seen, he starts with an insightful exploration of a provocative premise, but at some point he starts disrupting things with rather sophomoric, "dramatic" plot points. He's at his best when working in dark humour. Still, this is a rewarding way to spend four hours and even feels brisker than a lot of movies half that length.
Rated 05 Jan 2012
90
86th
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.
Rated 16 Feb 2015
90
74th
This film is like a million hours long. I think I enjoyed it, but I was pretty out of it tbh. The doctor tells you not to mix sleeping pills and booze, but that's just cause he/she knows that it gets you really fucked up, and they're hogging all the fun to themselves.
Rated 14 Nov 2012
83
85th
Wow! An absolute riot of a film that appears to transcend all genres. It's side-splittingly funny, deeply touching, horrifically harrowing and beatifully romantic, often all at the same time. Thematically it's fabulous and daring, both in its conception and realisation. The imagination needed to realise this story is astounding. Somehow, Sion repeatedly takes us to the edge of ridiculousness only to draw us back to some level of realism. The actors are pretty good too, especially Mitsushima.
Rated 20 Feb 2016
19
99th
Star Rating: ★★★★★
Rated 11 May 2017
84
96th
Craziest ever
Rated 03 May 2017
8
80th
Hilarious rampage of a film with a ridiculous 1 hour prologue that sets us up for a main narrative that's a fairly simple love triangle story about manipulation and unrequited love.
Rated 13 May 2015
9
89th
100% ludicrous, action-packed, utterly hilarious, and yet poignant and touching, "Love Exposure" has so much going on that, despite its imposing length of nearly four hours, time will fly by and your eyes won't leave the screen.
Rated 05 Jul 2014
95
98th
Sono takes essentially every filmmaking convention out the window, and it completely works. Despite no film having a better claim of "having everything," this is still a film about love in all its forms, and despite how ridiculous it gets, I only found myself more invested. I wouldn't recommend this to everyone, but I wouldn't not recommend it to anyone. I've never seen anything else like this, and I probably never will again.
Rated 21 May 2013
69
80th
Back in the day I used to be a devoted anime watcher. Love Exposure is a live-action anime of the bizarre kind. Four hours is plenty of time to play with video camera and narrative, and that's exactly what Sion Sono does. Everything about this film is over the top, and not always in a positive sense of it. Low budget shows in TV drama-like cinematography. Points for originality, but originality isn't enough for the movie to be hailed as the masterpiece, in my opinion.
Rated 07 Aug 2012
90
94th
spoiler alert: they don't fuck. now spend the four hours I just saved you by watching the x-men trilogy.
Rated 01 Apr 2015
100
97th
Min favoritt av Shion Sono. Fire timer der hvert femtende minutt byr på noe helt annet enn det som har skjedd tidligere. Kunne fort falt gjennom og blitt platt, men vekslingen mellom blodig alvor og superteit slap stick fungerer overraskende godt. En sånn film som ga meg lyst til å starte på nytt fra begynnelsen av så fort den var ferdig, noe som ikke kan sies om mange filmer med denne varigheten.
Rated 09 Mar 2013
100
99th
This film literally has EVERYTHING.
Rated 13 Oct 2011
35
90th
"Love Exposure is, in a sense, Shion Sono's equivalent of the Great Russian novel." - Simon Abrams
Rated 02 Feb 2015
45
4th
Don't do it. Don't waste 4 hours of your life on this crap. The story is original, but that should be the only reason to even remotely consider watching this. Just about every other aspect is terrible. Its a film where the director clearly has a vision and you think to yourself "This was an ok student film. The director has a lot of promise.", but then you realize this wasn't a student film and the director has been making movies since 1985.
Rated 06 Dec 2016
58
53rd
Felt Kar Wai Wong in this. I don't like Kar Wai Wong.
Rated 13 Aug 2013
70
53rd
biraz corba bir film. siradisi karakterlerle karikatur bir anlatım. ama ne anlatiyor. din-tarikat ve bolca geyik yapabilme sansi gibi. cok uzun ama sikici degil
Rated 04 Sep 2012
8
86th
Love Exposure, past all of the panty shots, graphic violence, erections, and everything else, is a film telling an old story in a unique way. It is an emotional, idiosyncratic experience. You have never seen anything like this, nor will you ever.
Rated 15 Feb 2021
64
37th
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Rated 27 Sep 2012
80
64th
27 Eylul 2012 & Ai No Mukidashi, varoluscu bir post-modern peygamber hikayesi. Her sey hakkinda hicbir sey. Hicbir sey hakkinda her sey. Cok ama cok garip bir deneyim.
Rated 28 Mar 2016
6
10th
I watched one hour of this four hour movie and couldn't go further.
Rated 28 Jul 2017
40
16th
Being quirky and different just for the sake of defying convention doesn't necessarily yield a successful film. This reminds me of those high school anime games you find on steam where the ultimate goal is to get laid. I also don't believe drawn out quotes from the bible and paraphrasing Plato should be lauded, because other than those two instances ,all the characters are cringe-worthy and almost every scene is perverse with the 'theme du jour' being erections and panty voyeurism.
Rated 16 Aug 2015
77
85th
Did you know this was going to be 6 hours long?!!
Rated 21 Feb 2010
75
71st
Bizarre and funny, sad and critical or to put it in a simple way: a unique movie.
Rated 24 Jul 2012
92
97th
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Rated 16 Dec 2014
80
89th
Pretty weird and very japanese with a great premise of acrobatic upskirt photography and strange sexual behavior. Some funny running gags mixed with sudden outbursts of bloody violence make you forget about the long runtime. Overall a succesful and ambitious film project.
Rated 02 Sep 2018
75
79th
Tau of the perv
Rated 03 Jun 2021
65
67th
Sono's gleefully irreverent deconstructions of that self-sabotaging little unit, the Japanese family, remind me of a later day Immamura filtered through the pop sensibility of manga and music videos. The result is often funny, compelling and even sometimes moving, but also sloppy, repetitive and juvenile.
Rated 26 Jul 2020
78
66th
Bold, weird, unpredictable, and fully engrossing in spite of its length.
Rated 12 Dec 2020
95
97th
Shockingly obscene, epic, and brilliant. One of a kind
Rated 09 Mar 2021
66
84th
absolute madness, but four hours is way too long even for such level of hilarous madness!
Rated 11 May 2021
90
91st
This film goes hard; the fastest first hour of any film I ever experienced, doesn't drag or falter during its 4-hour runtime. I'm now curious to see how it plays out episodically
Rated 12 Aug 2021
92
94th
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Rated 02 Jan 2022
60
9th
Stopped at 19 minutes.
Rated 07 Jun 2022
88
97th
By no means an art film. The narrative elements are loosely strung together; the characters aren't deep or layered. Offensive honestly, in a way that everyone in the west can all come together to reject. It's like a humorous tragedy but in a wholesome way. It's a flavor of film I've never tasted with great pacing and excellent performances. It's fun and filled with cheap thrills but also harsh, serious elements. It is all qualities, it is most genres. Excellent film.
Rated 06 Nov 2022
80
54th
Very stuck between “this is excellent” and “a version of this directed by someone with more visual flair would have been literally the perfect movie”
Rated 09 May 2023
73
82nd
This movie is way too long, this could've easily been cut down into a 3-hour film or two 90-minute films. That aside, the direction, music, and acting were all top-notch. This was by far the best thing I've seen from Sion Sono who I generally feel is overrated.

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