Love Exposure vs The English Teacher
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 5.6/10 for The English Teacher). The English Teacher is the shorter watch at 1h 32m 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
The English Teacher| Love Exposure | The English Teacher | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 5.6/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2013 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 32m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sion Sono | Craig Zisk |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Jessica Hecht, Norbert Leo Butz, Greg Kinnear, Fiona Shaw, Nathan Lane |
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.
The English Teacher
Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and…
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