Love & Peace

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Love & Peace

2015

1h 57m

Drama

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Something happens when a turtle is flushed down a toilet.

Jamie Healy

Radio Times

Equal parts fairy tale, lonely hearts romance, music-industry satire and kaiju spectacle, this is fun, far out and genuinely heartbreaking by turns.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 30, 2024

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Pieter-Jan Van Haecke

Psychocinematography

This romantic, musical, comedy mixed with some kaiju goodness is as absurd as it gets, but it hits all the right emotional notes.

Dec 15, 2020

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Laura Di Girolamo

Ghastly Grinning

Love and Peace bounces from rock-n-roll cautionary tale to cheesy Muppets Christmas fable to rom-com to kaiju movie, never once landing on boring.

Feb 20, 2020

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

If there was one filmmaker that could take the word unpredictable home, it would have to be Sion Sono. "Love and Peace" is a prominent example of the fact.

Apr 6, 2019

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Deirdre Crimmins

Film Thrills

With any other director at the helm Love & Peace could have been hokey or childish, but here it is honestly warm and funny as hell. Through the entire screening I had a huge dumb grin peeled across my face and I loved every minute of it.

Aug 21, 2018

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Alberto Acuña

Cinema Movil

It's easy to tell the creative force and imagination of the Japanese director hasn't been lost. [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 4, 2016

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VideoJockey J

Love & Peace is a beautiful wonder tale of a man with no self-esteem in a world hellbent on crushing him. Even automated doors are closed to him. All that changes when he gets a pet turtle. Underneath all the glamour happening, in the sewer, the lost and forgotten toys and pet living in the sewer brings the necessary sympathy to the story. When everything gets so big that it almost crumble underneath its weight, everything gets bigger in a beautifully grotesque finale. The visuals, the acting and the pacing are cranked up to give a unique magical flair. It's a great love story. It's a touching tale of self discovery. It's a neat Christmas movie. It's an adorable Kaiju flick.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/03/24

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Audience Member

If you ever wanna see Director Sion Sono's musical side or children-friendly Sono, this is really is it!!! This film is quite good with the Toy Story feels concept meets with a sudden kawaii Godzilla-size at the end...

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Sion Sono

Director

Kumiko Asô

Actor

Suidôbashi Hakase

Actor

Hiroki Hasegawa

Actor

Gen Hoshino

Actor

Inuko Inuyama

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Synopsis

Something happens when a turtle is flushed down a toilet.

Director: Sion Sono
Screenwriter: Sion Sono
Production Co: King Records
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Runtime: 1h 57m