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- 2002
- Cowboy Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
- 2002
- Cowboy Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
Summary A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
Directed By: Shôhei Imamura
Written By: Yo Henmi, Daisuke Tengan, Motofumi Tomikawa, Shôhei Imamura
- 2002
- Cowboy Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
- 2002
- Cowboy Pictures
- 1 h 59 m
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
70
6.7
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Summary A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
Directed By: Shôhei Imamura
Written By: Yo Henmi, Daisuke Tengan, Motofumi Tomikawa, Shôhei Imamura
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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72% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
28% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
70
72% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
28% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
May well be Imamura's funniest film; it is also one of his most accomplished. It is the work of a mature artist who has kept his adventurous spirit alive, which he has expressed in a complex and risky work carried off with an effortlessness that comes only from wisdom and experience.
Imamura's delight in the infinite oddity of men and women is goofy; it's also, at heart, reverent.
A movie about love, friendship and finding oneself, and it takes all its subjects very seriously while seeming to treat them with the lightest and most piquant of touches. Like its bizarre heroine, it irrigates our souls.
One never knows where "Warm Water" is going and even though the film's objective feels a little fuzzy even at the end a parable on female sexuality? an ode to liberty? there's such a joy in the telling that it doesn't matter terribly.
Funny and endearing.
The film may be lighter in tone than Imamura's more recent work, but it still has a number of serious things to say about life in contemporary Japan.
Plays like a nutty psychological mystery.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.7
57% Positive
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29% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
6.7
57% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
29% Mixed
2 Ratings
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14% Negative
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Awards
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Awards of the Japanese Academy
• 1 Nomination
