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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, 2001
Japanese
Japan, France
Profile of Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
The mood of Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is sentimental, sincere, and contemplative. The plot centers around social relations, sexual relations, and hopes. It is a drama, foreign, and comedy movie. Stylistically, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is fairytale-like and is surreal. It takes place, at least partly, in a village. The setting is Japan. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge happens in contemporary times. It is based on a book. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Shohei Imamura's Warm Water Under a Red Bridge stars the spirited Koji Yakusho as a Tokyo businessman whose company has recently gone bankrupt, leaving him unemployed. Estranged from his wife and with time on his hands, Yosuke (Koji) remembers a story told to him by a recently deceased friend, Taro (Kazuo Kitamura), about a hidden treasure. Not necessarily convinced that he'll find anything, Yosuke is nonetheless curious about the legend. He takes a train to a suburban fishing village and follows Taro's directions to the treasure--which, surprisingly, seem to be accurate. The only complication is a young woman, the mystifying, beautiful, and deeply bizarre Saeko (Miza Shimuzu), who lives in the house where Taro's clues lead.
Imbued with magic, mystery, hope, and an overflowing sense of relief, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is Imamura's comic chef d'oeuvre. The plot is thoroughly funny in a soft, trying, intelligent way and the characters are well developed and wonderfully tangible. Drifting photography of the ocean, the streams running through the small village into to a local canal, and less obvious sources of "vital essence" illustrate the film's message: good water can be a purifying and reinvigorating conductor of life's currents.
Details
| Language: | Japanese |
| Country: | Japan, France |
| Release date: | 29 September 2001 |
| Runtime: | 122 min |
Cast and Crew
as Yosuke Sasano
as Saeko Aizawa
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Critics Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Edward Guthmann
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
