Underwater Love (film)

{{Short description|2011 Japanese film by Shinji Imaoka}}

{{Other uses|Underwater Love (disambiguation){{!}}Underwater Love}}

{{more citations needed|date=May 2019}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Underwater Love

| image = Underwater Love.jpg

| director = Shinji Imaoka

| writer = Shinji Imaoka
Fumio Moriya

| producer = Stephan Holl
Daisuke Asakura

| starring = Sawa Masaki
Yoshiro Umezawa
Ai Narita

| music = Stereo Total

| cinematography = Christopher Doyle

| studio = Kokuei Company
Rapid Eye Movies HE GmbH

| distributor = Films Boutique

| released = {{Film date|2011|4|22|Tribeca Film Festival}}

| runtime = 87 minutes

| country = Japan
Germany

| language = Japanese

}}

{{nihongo| 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|date=November 2019}}

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 ({{nihongo2|正木佐和}}) as Asuka Kawaguchi
  • Yoshiro Umezawa ({{nihongo2|梅澤嘉朗}}) as Tetsuya Aoki
  • Ai Narita ({{nihongo2|成田愛}}) as Reiko Shima
  • Mutsuo Yoshioka ({{nihongo2|吉岡睦雄}}) as Hajime Taki
  • Fumio Moriya ({{nihongo2|守屋文雄}})
  • Hiroshi Satō ({{nihongo2|佐藤宏}})

See also