Love Exposure vs The Love Punch

Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6/10 for The Love Punch). The Love Punch is the shorter watch at 1h 34m compared with 3h 57m. Love Exposure is the older of the two (2009 against 2014). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Love Exposure posterLove Exposure2009 VS The Love Punch posterThe Love Punch2014
Love ExposureThe Love Punch
Audience score★ 8.0/10★ 6.0/10
Year20092014
Length3h 57m1h 34m
GenresAction, Comedy, Drama, RomanceComedy, Drama, Romance
CountryJapanUnited Kingdom
DirectorSion SonoJoel Hopkins
Main castHikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku NagaokaEleanor Matsuura, Tuppence Middleton, Louise Bourgoin, Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Spall

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 Love Punch

Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund — including his own — has been embezzled. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate, Richard sets out to track down the shady…

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