Water games (2001)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Water features |
| Original title | 赤 い 橋 の 下 の ぬ る い 水, Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Shōhei Imamura |
| script | Shōhei Imamura, Motofumi Tomikawa, Daisuke Tengan |
| production | Masaya Nakamura, Naoto Sarukawa, Hisa Iino, Catherine Dussart |
| music | Shin'ichirō Ikebe |
| camera | Shigeru Komatsubara |
| cut | Hajime Okayasu |
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Water games (original title: 赤 い 橋 の 下 の ぬ る い 水, Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu , alternative title: Warm Water under a Red Bridge ) is a Japanese film by Shōhei Imamura from 2001 . The film was a contribution to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival .
action
The film is about a salaryman of about forty , Yosuke Sasano, who loses his job and moves to the small fishing village of Himi after the death of his aged friend Taro . He moves into a house from which one came to look at a red bridge. In the house there is a vase with a golden Buddha statue, which was stolen by Taro from a temple in Kyoto . Yosuke can't find the vase, but he meets Saeko Aizawa, a woman who lives in this house. It has the ability to ejaculate and cause flowers to bloom and fish to go crazy in the river.
criticism
- Roger Ebert gives the film three out of four stars and remarks: "Only in a nation where physical needs are objectively discussed, where nude bathing in public is not a major problem, where shame about the human abdomen is not ritualized, can this film be in the Play the way Imamura intended. "
"Erotic comedy spiced with fantastic elements about a man who escapes big city life [...] A sensual and humorous fairy tale about overcoming paralysis and fears and about women as the source of life" in the truest sense of the word "
Web links
- Water games in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Review by Roger Ebert
- Summary