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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Sono channels a similarly unruly adolescent libido, religiously charged romantic idealism, and gleefully excessive tonal shifts, but in a shorter, more openly goofy supernatural coming-of-age form.
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Why this pick
Its ecstatic, anything-goes filmmaking matches Love Exposure’s maximalist energy: sincere devotion and absurd comedy collide as fanatical characters turn chaos into a handmade cinematic spectacle.
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Why this pick
This shares the heightened pop-art visuals, wild comic velocity, and unexpectedly heartfelt outsider bond beneath its deliberately excessive style.
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Why this pick
For Love Exposure’s assaultive visual inventiveness and morally feverish family dysfunction, this delivers another fractured Japanese descent with stylized editing and emotional extremity.
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Why this pick
Its seemingly disparate characters and time periods converge with the same buoyant faith in coincidence, youth, and grand romantic gestures—less abrasive, but comparably exuberant.
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01 / THE STORY
The story follows Yū Honda (Takahiro Nishijima), a young teenage Catholic attempting to live his life in a faithful and orderly manner. His father, Tetsu, has become a devout Catholic priest following the death of Yū's mother, and operates his own church. Yū's father asks Yū to Confession (religion) his sins, but Yū believes he is a good person, who has little to confess. At first he makes up sins, but his father sees right through him, and Yū sets out to commit real sins. Because of this, he falls in with a questionable crowd.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Yu Tsunoda
Yoko
Aya Koike
Tetsu Tsunoda
