Underwater Love (2011)
Underwater Love (2011)
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 400 | XviD @ 1893 Kbps | 83 min | 1,44 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English (idx/sub + srt)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 400 | XviD @ 1893 Kbps | 83 min | 1,44 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps | Subs: English (idx/sub + srt)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Directed by pink-film veteran Shinji IMAOKA (Lunch Box, Frog Song), shot by Christopher Doyle – the famed cinematographer behind Hero and countless films by Wong Kar Wai – and with music by Germany’s Stereo Total, Underwater Love – A Pink Musical promises to be unlike anything you’ve ever seen.
Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She is just about to be married to her boss. One day, she encounters a Kappa, a water creature living in the lake and learns that it is the reincarnation of Aoki, her first love. What ensues is a zany spectacle of love, music and sex.
Just watched this at the Fantastic Fest 2011 in Austin and was blown away. It defies genres. The director is know as a pink movie director, basically a kind of Japanese soft porn, but the film truly transcends this label. It's very very funny at times, has a cuteness to the characters, is sexually quite explicit, yet at the same time very romantic.
Fundamentally, though, it is fundamentally a film about the existentially condition of life, about living in the now, enjoying life and love to the full and as such is very successful. Humor and sexuality are both used with good effect to demonstrate the temporal and immediate nature of human existence. You laugh, you cry, you get horny, you listen to the strange songs and you think about the nature of our short lives on this earth.
The cinematography is very good, the pale and low contrast images capture the landscape, particularly the water, very well.
All in all, a true pearl of a movie!IMDB Reviewer
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Underwater Love (2011)
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