Love Exposure vs Wild Target
Love Exposure has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.4/10 for Wild Target). Wild Target is the shorter watch at 1h 38m compared with 3h 57m. Love Exposure is the older of the two (2009 against 2010). Both are action, comedy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Love Exposure
Wild Target| Love Exposure | Wild Target | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 6.4/10 |
| Year | 2009 | 2010 |
| Length | 3h 57m | 1h 38m |
| Genres | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Action, Comedy |
| Country | Japan | – |
| Director | Sion Sono | Jonathan Lynn |
| Main cast | Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Makiko Watanabe, Hiroyuki Onoue, Tasuku Nagaoka | Emily Blunt, Martin Freeman, Rupert Everett, Rory Kinnear, Bill Nighy |
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.
Wild Target
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous…
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