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Love Exposure
Why this pick
Sono’s volatile, empathetic portrait of damaged adolescents shares Himizu’s emotional extremity, moral chaos and sudden shifts between bleakness, tenderness and grotesque dark humour.
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MOVIE2011 2h 9m JPN
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Its alienated boys, ritualised school violence and fatalistic youth culture carry a similarly raw, despairing charge, with a stark, confrontational Japanese indie sensibility.
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Why this pick
A controlled domestic drama that lets dread seep into ordinary life; like Himizu, it studies trauma and violence without offering easy moral comfort.
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The World of Kanako
Why this pick
Its fractured search through adolescent cruelty and parental damage matches Himizu’s feverish intensity, corrosive view of youth and visually aggressive descent into despair.
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Why this pick
This is a more lyrical and dreamlike treatment of teenage isolation, bullying and escape, but reaches a comparable ache for vulnerable young people pushed beyond endurance.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After two teenagers from abusive households befriend each other, their lives take a dark adventure into existentialism, despair, and human frailty.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Shota Sometani
住田祐一
Fumi Nikaido
茶沢景子
Tetsu Watanabe
夜野正造
Tarou Suwa
まーくん
Setchin Kawaya
藤本健吉
Mitsuru Fukikoshi
田村圭太
Megumi Kagurazaka
田村圭子
Ken Mitsuishi
住田の父