A Sad and Beautiful World vs Love Exposure
A Sad and Beautiful World and Love Exposure are tied on audience score (8/10). A Sad and Beautiful World is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 3h 57m. Love Exposure is the older of the two (2009 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Sad and Beautiful World
Love Exposure| A Sad and Beautiful World | Love Exposure | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2009 |
| Length | 1h 50m | 3h 57m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Lebanon | Japan |
| Director | Cyril Aris | Sion Sono |
| Main cast | Camille Salameh, Julia Kassar, Mounia Akl, Hasan Akil, Tino Karam | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka |
Synopsis
A Sad and Beautiful World
In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.
Love Exposure
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an "up-skirt" photographer. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
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