Love Exposure vs What We Wanted to Be
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.8/10 for What We Wanted to Be). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 3h 57m. Love Exposure is the older of the two (2009 against 2024). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
What We Wanted to Be| Love Exposure | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2024 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | Japan | Argentina |
| Director | Sion Sono | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
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.
What We Wanted to Be
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
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