Love Exposure vs The Ramen Girl
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.5/10 for The Ramen Girl). The Ramen Girl is the shorter watch at 1h 42m compared with 3h 57m. The Ramen Girl is the older of the two (2008 against 2009). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
The Ramen Girl| Love Exposure | The Ramen Girl | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 6.5/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2008 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sion Sono | Robert Allan Ackerman |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Soji Arai, Renji Ishibashi, Brittany Murphy, Gabriel Mann, Tammy Blanchard |
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 Ramen Girl
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.
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