Underwater Love
2011 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan
From Japan's Kokuei Company and Germany's Rapid Eye Movies comes a whimsical pink film (softcore) musical about a woman and a sea creature. The story involves Asuka, a woman in her thirties who works in a lakeside fish factory. She's about to be married to her boss, Taki. But one day, she encounters a kappa--a water sprite found in Japanese folklore--and learns that the creature is in fact the reborn form of Aoki, an old friend who'd drowned to death when he was 17. What ensues is a spectacle of songs and sex that is at once zany, erotic and poignant. Directed by pink-film veteran Shinji IMAOKA (Lunch Box; Frog Song), shot by Christopher Doyle--the famed cinematographer and with music by Germany's Stereo Total, Underwater Love promises to be unlike anything you've ever seen. The film is set to be completed September 2010.
Direction Shinji Imaoka
Cast Sawa Masaki · Yoshirô Umezawa · Ai Narita · Mutsuo Yoshioka · Fumio Moriya · Emi Nishimura · Hiroshi Satō · Yutaka Ônishi
Soundtrack Stereo Total
Screenplay Shinji Imaoka · Fumio Moriya
Cinematography Christopher Doyle
Original title Onna no kappa (Underwater Love)
5.7
87 votes (FilmAffinity)
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