Love Exposure vs The Roses
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.1/10 for The Roses). The Roses is the shorter watch at 1h 45m compared with 3h 57m. Love Exposure is the older of the two (2009 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
The Roses| Love Exposure | The Roses | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 7.1/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2025 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 45m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sion Sono | Jay Roach |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Zoë Chao, Ncuti Gatwa, Andy Samberg |
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 Roses
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.
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