Underwater Love (film)

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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 French-German band Stereo Total. Underwater Love was shot in 5 ½ days, one take only.^{[citation needed]}

Underwater Love
Directed by	Shinji Imaoka
Written by	Shinji Imaoka Fumio Moriya
Produced by	Stephan Holl Daisuke Asakura
Starring	Sawa Masaki Yoshiro Umezawa Ai Narita
Cinematography	Christopher Doyle
Music by	Stereo Total
Production companies	Kokuei Company Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH
Distributed by	Films Boutique
Release date	April 22, 2011 (2011-04-22) (Tribeca Film Festival)
Running time	87 minutes
Countries	Japan Germany
Language	Japanese

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)

See also

• The Shape of Water

External links

• Underwater Love at IMDb
• "Underwater Love at AllCinema" (in Japanese).
• Review at BeyondHollywood.com