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is a 2011 Japanese-German co-production. Germany’s Rapid Eye Movies and Japan’s Kokuei Company have created a whimsical pink film musical about a woman and a sea creature. It was directed by pink-film veteran Shinji Imaoka

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), shot by famed cinematographer Christopher Doyle

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Plot

Asuka, a woman in her thirties, 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 to death when they were 17.

Cast

• Sawa Masaki as Asuka Kawaguchi
• Yoshiro Umezawa as Tetsuya Aoki
• Ai Narita as Reiko Shima
• Mutsuo Yoshioka as Hajime Taki
• Fumio Moriya
• Hiroshi Satō

External links

• (fr) Review at Cinemafantastique