Hijiri Kojima, Isao Natsuyagi, Kazuo Kitamura, Koji Yakusho, Manasaku Fuwa ...( see more  see more... ) , Mansaku Fuwa , Mickey Curtis , Misa Shimizu , Mitsuko Baisho , Sumiko Sakamoto , Taka Gatarukanaru , Toshie Negishi , Yukiya Kitamura

Yosuke is an unemployed man in his forties, whose wife has just left him. On the advice of an old tramp, he travels to a faraway village, to a certain house, from where one can see a red bridge. In th...( read more  read more... )is house there is a vase containing a golden Buddha, stolen from a temple in Kyoto by this old tramp. The man does not find the vase, but meets Saeko, a woman who lives in the house. This strange, kleptomaniac woman has the power to make flowers bloom out of season, to attract fish by the water she secretes when she experiences physical pleasure; the man who "bathes" in such water will rediscover his vitality...

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Unrated, 1 hr. 59 min.

Directed by: Shohei Imamura

Release Date: May 3, 2002

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DVD Release Date: June 24, 2003

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  • September 29, 2008
    Not the best Imamura,but it certainly takes a blow and vanquishes anyone who assumes it's just another "love story",spiced up with the delicate romance.Negative.As always that viciously talented Japanese master explains to us the simplicity in fantastic tendency for unreal.Unreal...( read more) for the unimaginative ones.Yakusho is excellent in an unusual role as the man who meets his match: an orgasmic "gift".
  • May 23, 2009
    I laughed sooo hard... shes a squirter LOL. A strange, almost magical story thats funny & sweet.
  • October 1, 2008
    hahahahahahahahahaha! great!
  • September 21, 2008
    An unusual romantic comedy with a few surprises. Perhaps not to every ones taste...but it has its funny moments and is certainly an unsual main theme. An impossible story of course.... but that doesn't make it any the less funny.
  • July 5, 2008
    what a movie.. completely fantasy.. huhu
  • March 4, 2008
    Oooh, definitely wanna see!
  • December 18, 2007
    Very original. Off the wall!
  • June 14, 2007
    The quirkiest movie ever!

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September 27, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Seeing it as a Westerner is an enlightening, even liberating, experience. full review

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