Love Exposure vs The Gardener
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.2/10 for The Gardener). The Gardener is the shorter watch at 1h 50m compared with 3h 57m. Love Exposure is the older of the two (2009 against 2025). Both are action, comedy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
The Gardener| Love Exposure | The Gardener | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2025 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 50m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Action, Comedy |
| Country | Japan | Belgium |
| Director | Sion Sono | David Charhon |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rayan Bouazza, Kaaris, Michaël Youn, Élie Semoun |
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 Gardener
Every year the Prime Minister has a list of all kinds of troublemakers eliminated in the name of the famous Reason of State. Serge Shuster, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic, finds himself on this list, better known as the Matignon List. Condemned to certain death and at the heart of an implacable plot and a state secret that also put his family in danger, Serge, his wife and children have only one hope left - their gardener…
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