Underwater Love

Underwater Love

Onna no kappa Director Shinji Imaoka

1 hr. 27 min. · Japan, Germany, 2011 · Drama · Japanese · Subtitles: Lithuanian, English · N/A

About the film

We kindly recommend to watch the film without reading any further than 1. this is unprecedented film for adults, 2. you will laugh your heart out.Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She is just about to be married to her boss. One day, she encounters a Kappa, a water creature living in the lake, and learns that it is the reincarnation of Aoki, her first love. What ensues is a zany spectacle of love, music and sex.

Details

Running time
1 hr. 27 min.
Country, year
Japan, Germany, 2011
Genre
Drama
Language
Japanese
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Age rating
N/A

Credits

Director
Shinji Imaoka
Screenplay
Shinji Imaoka, Fumio Moriya
Cinematography
Christopher Doyle
Music
Stereo Total
Cast
awa Masaki,Yoshiro Umezawa, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Emi Nishimura, Ai Narita
More information
www.imdb.com

Festivals and awards

  • Selected for Karloivy Vary Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival. unknown - 1
Shinji Imaoka

Director

Shinji Imaoka

Shinji Imaoka (b. 1965, Osaka) belongs to a group of Japanese erotic filmmakers designated as the Seven Lucky Gods, who debuted in pink film at the end of the 1990s. He began working as an assistant director of Shishi Pro, a pink film production company. In 1995 he debuted as a director with the erotic movie Waiting for the Comet. His pink movies focus on tragicomic characters who desperately seek an escape from their stereotypical lives.