Underwater Love (2011)
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.
Director: Shinji Imaoka
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Sawa Masaki as Asuka Kawaguchi |
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Yoshirô Umezawa as Tetsuya Aoki |
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Ai Narita as Reiko Shima |
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Mutsuo Yoshioka as Hajime Taki |
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Fumio Moriya as Angel of Death |
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Hiroshi Sato as |
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Emi Nishimura as |
| Camera | Christopher Doyle | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Shinji Imaoka | Director |
| Writing | Shinji Imaoka | Writer |
| Writing | Fumio Moriya | Writer |
| Directing | Rei Sakamoto | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Ken Memita | Editor |
| Sound | Tilo Busch | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Production | Stephan Holl | Producer |
| Camera | Yasushi Miyata | First Assistant Camera |
| Sound | Stereo Total | Music |
| Costume & Make-Up | Taiga Ishino | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Editing | Olivier Fontenay | Colorist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yoshihiro Nishimura | Makeup Supervisor |