is a 2001 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. This was Imamura's last feature film. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot

Warm Water Under A Red Bridge focuses on the troubles of a Japanese "everyman" who finds a new life with an unusual woman in a small fishing village. Imamura's last film contains considerable commentary on the search for happiness.

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

This romantic comedy tells the story of a salaryman who has been laid off from his job at an architectural firm in Tokyo and is undergoing marital difficulties. When his old friend dies, he travels to the small fishing town of Himi, Toyama to find a treasure that the old man had hidden in a house there decades before. He does not find what he expects, but takes a job with local fishermen and becomes romantically involved with a woman with an exaggerated proclivity towards female ejaculation.

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

Cast

Kōji Yakusho as Yosuke Sasano

Misa Shimizu as Saeko Aizawa

Mitsuko Baisho as Mitsu Aizawa

Mansaku Fuwa as Gen

Isao Natsuyagi as Masayuki Uomi

Yukiya Kitamura as Shintaro Uomi

Hijiri Kojima as Mika Tagami

Toshie Negishi as Tomoko Sasano

Sumiko Sakamoto as Masako Yamada

Gadarukanaru Taka as Taizo Tachibana

Mickey Curtis as Nobuyuki Ohnishi

Takao Yamada as Kazuo Namamura

Katsuo Nakamura as Takao Yamada

Kazuo Kitamura as Taro

References

External links

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge at Rotten Tomatoes

Mes, Tom. (2001) Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (film review) at Midnight Eye

2001 films

2001 romantic comedy films

2000s sex comedy films

Nikkatsu films

2000s Japanese films

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge