Movie
Underwater Love
2011 · 87 min
A dreamy, offbeat romance that blends mundane factory life with surreal fantasy and spontaneous musical numbers, leaving you charmed and slightly bewildered.
- Directed by
- Shinji Imaoka
- Genres
- Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
- Starring
- Sawa Masaki, Yoshirô Umezawa, Ai Narita
- Overview
- 35-year-old Asuka 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 when they were 17.
- How it feels
- Whimsical, absurd, campy and romantic. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, identity, memory, death
- Content
- Strong sexual content. Mild language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Shinji Imaoka
- Genres
- Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
- Starring
- Sawa Masaki, Yoshirô Umezawa, Ai Narita
