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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
Directed byShōhei Imamura
Written byYo Henmi (novel)
Shōhei Imamura
Daisuke Tengan
Motofumi Tomikawa (screenplay)
Produced byMasaya Nakamura
StarringKōji Yakusho
Misa Shimizu
Mitsuko Baisho
Mansaku Fuwa
Isao Natsuyagi
Yukiya Kitamura
Hijiri Kojima
CinematographyShigeru Komatsubara
Edited byHajime Okayasu
Music byShin’ichirō Ikebe
Distributed byNikkatsu Corporation
Release date
  • November 3, 2001 (2001-11-03) (Japan)
Running time
122 minutes (Argentina)
119 minutes (France)
LanguageJapanese

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 romantic comedy film by director Shōhei Imamura. This was Imamura's last feature film.[1] It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[2] 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.[3][4]

Plot

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Yosuke is 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

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References

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  1. ^ "Educational: Warm Water Under a Red Bridge :: Film Movement". www.filmmovement.com. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Warm Water Under a Red Bridge". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  3. ^ Gonzales, Dillon (2023-06-01). "'Warm Water Under A Red Bridge' Blu-Ray Review - You Are Not Ready For This Bizarre Erotic Journey". Geek Vibes Nation. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  4. ^ Maltin, Leonard (2012-09-04). Leonard Maltin's 2013 Movie Guide: The Modern Era. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-101-60463-2.
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