Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
Directed by	Shōhei Imamura
Produced by	Masaya Nakamura
Written by	Yo Henmi (novel) Shōhei Imamura Daisuke Tengan Motofumi Tomikawa (screenplay)
Starring	Kōji Yakusho Misa Shimizu Mitsuko Baisho Mansaku Fuwa Isao Natsuyagi Yukiya Kitamura Hijiri Kojima
Music by	Shinichirō Ikebe
Cinematography	Shigeru Komatsubara
Editing by	Hajime Okayasu
Distributed by	Nikkatsu Corporation
Release date(s)	November 3, 2001 (Japan)
Running time	122 min. (Argentina), 119 min. (France)
Language	Japanese
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (赤い橋の下のぬるい水, Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu^?) is a 2001 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. This was Imamura's last feature film.

[edit] Plot

Warm Water Under A Red Bridge focuses on the troubles of a Japanese "everyman" who finds a new life with an unusual woman in a small fishing village. Imamura's last film contains considerable commentary on the search for happiness.

This romantic comedy tells the story of a salary man who has been laid off from his job at an architectural firm in Tokyo and is undergoing marital difficulties. When his old friend dies, he travels to the small fishing town of Tokoyama to find a treasure that the old man had hidden in a house there decades before. He does not find what he expects, but takes a job with local fishermen and becomes romantically involved with a woman with an exaggerated proclivity towards female ejaculation.