Love Exposure vs Prime
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6/10 for Prime). Prime is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 3h 57m. Prime is the older of the two (2005 against 2009). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
Prime| Love Exposure | Prime | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 6.0/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2005 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sion Sono | Ben Younger |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Ato Essandoh, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg, Jon Abrahams, Doris Belack |
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.
Prime
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
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