Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (赤ã„æ©‹ã®ä¸‹ã®ã¬ã‚‹ã„æ°´, Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu) is a 2001 Japanese film by director ShÅhei Imamura. This was Imamura's last feature film. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
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
- KÅji Yakusho - Yosuke Sasano
- Misa Shimizu - Saeko Aizawa
- Mitsuko Baisho - Mitsu Aizawa
- Mansaku Fuwa - Gen
- Isao Natsuyagi - Masayuki Uomi
- Yukiya Kitamura - Shintaro Uomi
- Hijiri Kojima - Mika Tagami
- Toshie Negishi - Tomoko Sasano
- Sumiko Sakamoto - Masako Yamada
- Gadarukanaru Taka - Taizo Tachibana
- Mickey Curtis - Nobuyuki Ohnishi
- Takao Yamada - Kazuo Namamura
- Katsuo Nakamura - Takao Yamada
- Kazuo Kitamura - Taro
References
External links
- Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu on IMDb
- Mes, Tom. (2001) Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (film review) at midnighteye.com
- Warm Water Under a Red Bridge at Rotten Tomatoes.
