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52% Critic Match
Underwater Love
5.2 / 10• 2011• 1h 27m•NR• Japanese
FantasyRomanceComedy
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Sawa Masaki
Asuka Kawaguchi
LeadYU
Yoshirô Umezawa
Tetsuya Aoki
Ai Narita
Reiko Shima
Mutsuo Yoshioka
Hajime Taki
Fumio Moriya
Angel of Death
HS
Hiroshi Sato
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EN
Emi Nishimura
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What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Shinji Imaoka's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Underwater Love is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
