Underwater Love (film)

Underwater Love (UNDERWATER LOVE-おんなの河童-, UNDERWATER LOVE Onna no kappa) is a 2011 pink film musical about a woman and a sea creature. It is a co-production between Germany's Rapid Eye Movies and Japan's Kokuei Company. It was directed by Shinji Imaoka (who had earlier directed the pink films Lunch Box and Frog Song), shot by cinematographer Christopher Doyle and includes music by German band Stereo Total. Underwater Love was shot in 5 ½ days, one take only.

Underwater Love
Directed byShinji Imaoka
Produced byStephan Holl
Daisuke Asakura
Written byShinji Imaoka
Fumio Moriya
StarringSawa Masaki
Yoshiro Umezawa
Ai Narita
Music byStereo Total
CinematographyChristopher Doyle
Production
company
Kokuei Company
Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH
Distributed byFilms Boutique
Release date
  • April 22, 2011 (2011-04-22) (Tribeca Film Festival)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryJapan
Germany
LanguageJapanese

Plot

Asuka, a woman in her thirties, 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 crush who'd drowned to death when they were 17.

Cast
  • Sawa Masaki (正木佐和) as Asuka Kawaguchi
  • Yoshiro Umezawa (梅澤嘉朗) as Tetsuya Aoki
  • Ai Narita (成田愛) as Reiko Shima
  • Mutsuo Yoshioka (吉岡睦雄) as Hajime Taki
  • Fumio Moriya (守屋文雄)
  • Hiroshi Satō (佐藤宏)
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  • Underwater Love on IMDb
  • "Underwater Love at AllCinema" (in Japanese).
  • Review at BeyondHollywood.com


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