Warm Water Under A Red Bridge DVD

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Shohei Imamura's WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE stars the spirited Koji Yakusho as a Tokyo businessman whose company has recently gone bankrupt leaving him unemployed Estranged from his wife & with time on his hands Yosuke (Koji) remembers a story told to him by a recently deceased friend Taro (Kazuo Kitamura) about a hidden treasure Not necessarily convinced that he'll find anything Yosuke is nonetheless curious about the legend He takes a train to a suburban fishing village & follows Taro's directions to the treasure--which surprisingly seem to be accurate The only complication is a young woman the mystifying beautiful & deeply bizarre Saeko (Miza Shimuzu) who lives in the house where Taro's clues lead Imbued with magic mystery hope & an overflowing sense of relief WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE is Imamura's comic chef d'oeuvre The plot is thoroughly funny in a soft trying intelligent way & the characters are well developed & wonderfully tangible Drifting photography of the ocean the streams running through the small village into to a local canal & less obvious sources of vital essence illustrate the film's message good water can be a purifying & reinvigorating conductor of life's currents