Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

– A newly unemployed salaryman meets a particularly sexual woman...

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.90 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 2 Minutes
Release Year:
2001
Original Name:
赤い橋の下のぬるい水
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) - Also known as 赤い橋の下のぬるい水

A newly unemployed salaryman meets a particularly sexual woman.

Release Date:

03 Nov 2001

Language:

Japanese

Director:

Shôhei Imamura

Writer:

Yo Henmi (novel), Shôhei Imamura, Daisuke Tengan, Motofumi Tomikawa (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baishô, Mansaku Fuwa

Plot:

An impossible tale. Taro, an old man who dies homeless in Tokyo has told Yosuke, a weak-willed out-of-work salaryman about a golden statue that he left years ago in a house by the sea in Noto. Yosuke goes and he's captivated by Saeko, a young women who lives in the house where Taro left the statue. She has a strange affliction: water builds up in her and she can only vent it by wicked acts, such as shoplifting, or, more powerfully, through orgasm. Yosuke obliges, the water gives him life, as well as the plants and fish it reaches. Saeko feels shame, and she has a past. Taro's ghost urges Yosuke to fulfill his desires, but can the relationship survive?

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations.

Production:

Cowboy Booking International

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
Metacritic:
69%