Product Description
Brimming with magical realism, sensuality, and humor, the final film by revered filmmaker Shohei Imamura is "an enlightening, even liberating, experience" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) that tells the story of Yosuke Sasano, an unemployed salaryman who arrives in a remote fishing village following a rumor of hidden treasure. Instead, he meets Saeko Aizawa, a charming and unusual woman with a unique problem: a well of warm water inside her longing for release. Saeko faces both shame and adoration for her condition, which the local anglers believe feeds the river and it's fish. Intrigued and enamored, Yosuke decides to take up a new life as a fisherman. Through their passionate affair, Imamura paints a picture of longing, fantasy, and the search for true happiness in the most unexpected of places that's both "nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable" (Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice).
Review
An enlightening, even liberating, experience. --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable, Warm Water may well be the year's best and most unpredictable comedy. --Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
A delirious celebration of the female orgasm. --Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
- Package Dimensions : 6.69 x 5.35 x 0.47 inches; 5.92 ounces
- Director : Shohei Imamura
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 59 minutes
- Release date : May 23, 2023
- Actors : Kji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu
- Studio : Film Movement
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
