Chihayafuru: Part II vs Love Exposure

Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.7/10 for Chihayafuru: Part II). Chihayafuru: Part II is the shorter watch at 1h 52m compared with 3h 57m. Love Exposure is the older of the two (2009 against 2016). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Chihayafuru: Part II posterChihayafuru: Part II2016 VS Love Exposure posterLove Exposure2009
Chihayafuru: Part IILove Exposure
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 8.0/10
Year20162009
Length1h 52m3h 57m
GenresComedy, Drama, RomanceAction, Comedy, Drama, Romance
CountryJapanJapan
DirectorNorihiro KoizumiSion Sono
Main castKento Kaku, Jun Kunimura, Miyuki Matsuda, Mackenyu, Mone KamishiraishiHikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka

Synopsis

Chihayafuru: Part II

After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood friend and inspiration, Arata, has announced that he has quit competitive karuta. Not only that, but a new rival emerges in the reigning female champion karuta player, Shinobu Wakamiya, a karuta prodigy who became the nation's and the world's greatest…

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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