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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge(赤い橋の下のぬるい水)

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Japan, France · 2001
1h 59m
Director Shōhei Imamura
Starring Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Mansaku Fuwa
Genre Drama, Romance

When Yosuke gets fired and loses an old friend all at once, he leaves his dull Tokyo life behind and travels to a small town in the hopes of recovering his late friend's hidden treasure. The treasure is nowhere to be found, but Yosuke meets a woman who takes him on unforgettable sexual adventures.

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90

New Times (L.A.) by Andy Klein

While Imamura films generally have their droll moments, this is the most blatantly comic work he's done since the '80s -- richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings.

75

San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

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.

80

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

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.

50

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

Maintains a light, dainty tone despite the heavy-handed metaphor, but in crossing the Pacific to the U.S., it is bound to leave most viewers dry.

60

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

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.

75

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

This story is unthinkable in a Hollywood movie, but there is something about the matter-of-fact way Saeko explains her problem, and the surprised but not stunned way that Yosuke hears her, that takes the edge off.

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