Love Exposure vs Pleasure Spa
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 5.4/10 for Pleasure Spa). Pleasure Spa is the shorter watch at 1h 15m compared with 3h 57m. Love Exposure is the older of the two (2009 against 2013). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
Pleasure Spa| Love Exposure | Pleasure Spa | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 5.4/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2013 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 15m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sion Sono | Jim Wynorski |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Michael Swan, Cindy Lucas, Brandin Rackley, Frankie Cullen, Heather Vandeven |
Synopsis
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.
Pleasure Spa
A spa that caters to its clients' erotic desires faces a shutdown when an undercover cop arrives to investigate its steamy business.
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