Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu - Shohei Imamura (2001)
Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu - Shohei Imamura (2001)
aka: "Warm Water Under a Red Bridge" - "De l'eau tiède sous un pont rouge"
DVDRIP | 115 min | MKV-x264 720x384 | 25 fps | Ogg Vorbis 192 kb/s | 1.39 GB
Language: Japanese | Subtitles: English - French - Spanish in 3 optional srt files | Genre: Comedy - Drama
aka: "Warm Water Under a Red Bridge" - "De l'eau tiède sous un pont rouge"
DVDRIP | 115 min | MKV-x264 720x384 | 25 fps | Ogg Vorbis 192 kb/s | 1.39 GB
Language: Japanese | Subtitles: English - French - Spanish in 3 optional srt files | Genre: Comedy - Drama
Director: Shohei Imamura
Writers: Yo Henmi, Shohei Imamura
Japan - 2001 - color
Cast: Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Mansaku Fuwa, Isao Natsuyagi, Yukiya Kitamura, Hijiri Kojima, Toshie Negishi
A funny, fairy and sensual tale. A down-and-out salary man travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
Yosuke has been laid off. His wife has given up on him and he's living on the streets of Tokyo, constantly looking for work. He stumbles upon an interesting story told by Taro, a homeless wanderer. Taro tells Yosuke that he stole a valuable gold Buddhist statue from a temple in Kyoto, and hid it in a house by a red bridge in a town on the Noto Peninsula near the Sea of Japan.
When Taro's suddenly dies, Yosuke recalls the story of the Buddhist statue and sets off to find it. Upon reaching the town he goes to a supermarket where he spies a woman shoplifting. After the woman leaves the scene, Yosuke notices an earring in a pool of water where she was standing. The woman turns out to be Saeko, granddaughter of Mitsu, who both live in the house by the red bridge.
Yosuke tracks down Saeko and returns the earring to her. This is the moment he first encounters the mystery of Saeko's water. This strange, kleptomaniac woman has the power to make flowers bloom out of season, and to draw fish from the sea into the river with the water she secretes when she experiences physical pleasure.
Yosuke gets a job with some fishermen and decides to stay in town. He gradually becomes obsessed with Saeko and her mysterious water, and as time goes on, Saeko's long suffering due to her water condition begins to heal with Yosuke's attention to it.
This romantic comedy and Imamura's last film contains considerable commentary on the search for happiness.
Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu - Shohei Imamura (2001)
Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu - Shohei Imamura (2001)
Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu - Shohei Imamura (2001)
Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu - Shohei Imamura (2001)
Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu - Shohei Imamura (2001)
Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu - Shohei Imamura (2001)
