Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
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Directed by | Shōhei Imamura |
Written by | (novel) Shōhei Imamura (screenplay) |
Produced by | Masaya Nakamura |
Starring | Kōji Yakusho Misa Shimizu Mitsuko Baisho Isao Natsuyagi Yukiya Kitamura |
Cinematography | Shigeru Komatsubara |
Edited by | Hajime Okayasu |
Music by | Shin’ichirō Ikebe |
Distributed by | Nikkatsu Corporation |
Release date | November 3, 2001 (Japan) |
Running time | 122 minutes (Argentina) 119 minutes (France) |
Language | Japanese |
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (赤い橋の下のぬるい水, Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu) is a 2001 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. This was Imamura's last feature film. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Plot[]
Warm Water Under A Red Bridge focuses on the troubles of a Japanese "everyman" who finds a new life with an unusual woman in a small fishing village. Imamura's last film contains considerable commentary on the search for happiness.
This romantic comedy tells the story of a salaryman who has been laid off from his job at an architectural firm in Tokyo and is undergoing marital difficulties. When his old friend dies, he travels to the small fishing town of Himi, Toyama to find a treasure that the old man had hidden in a house there decades before. He does not find what he expects, but takes a job with local fishermen and becomes romantically involved with a woman with an exaggerated proclivity towards female ejaculation.
Cast[]
- Kōji Yakusho as Yosuke Sasano
- Misa Shimizu as Saeko Aizawa
- Mitsuko Baisho as Mitsu Aizawa
- as Gen
- Isao Natsuyagi as Masayuki Uomi
- Yukiya Kitamura as Shintaro Uomi
- as Mika Tagami
- Toshie Negishi as Tomoko Sasano
- Sumiko Sakamoto as Masako Yamada
- as Taizo Tachibana
- Mickey Curtis as Nobuyuki Ohnishi
- as Kazuo Namamura
- Katsuo Nakamura as Takao Yamada
- as Taro
References[]
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Warm Water Under a Red Bridge". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
External links[]
- Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu at IMDb
- Warm Water Under a Red Bridge at Rotten Tomatoes
- Mes, Tom. (2001) Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (film review) at Midnight Eye
- Japanese-language films
- 2001 films
- Japanese films
- 2000s romantic comedy films
- 2000s sex comedy films
- Nikkatsu films
- 2001 comedy films
- 2000s Japanese film stubs
- 2000s romantic comedy film stubs