Fresh
There's much tongue in cheek in the film and there's no doubt the filmmaker is having fun with it all.
Marta Barber, Miami Herald
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
2001 · 1h 59m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by
Shōhei Imamura
Overview
When a dying friend tells out-of-work salaryman Yosuke about a hidden treasure, he sets off in search of the only clue about its location: a house by a red bridge. What he finds instead is a woman who transcends all his fantasies.
Director and cast
- Shōhei Imamura Director
- Koji Yakusho as Yosuke Sasano
- Misa Shimizu as Saeko Aizawa
- Mitsuko Baisho as Mitsu Aizawa
- Mansaku Fuwa as Gen
- Isao Natsuyagi as Masayuki Uomi
- Yukiya Kitamura as Shintaro Uomi
- Hijiri Kojima as Mika Tagami
- Toshie Negishi as Tomoko Sasano
- Sumiko Sakamoto as Masako Yamada
- Mickey Curtis as Nobuyuki Ohnishi
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Seeing it as a Westerner is an enlightening, even liberating, experience.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
Like its bizarre heroine, it irrigates our souls.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
A charming, quirky and leisurely paced Scottish comedy -- except with an outrageous central gimmick that could have been a reject from Monty Python's Meaning of Life.
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times
Fresh
Imamura has said that Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women. It may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made.
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly
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