Ero-Nites

Underwater Love

Onna no kappa
Dir. Imaoka Shinji
Japan 2011, 87’
Subtitles: Polish & English


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.


Filmography

1995 Kemonotachi no seien: Iku toki, issho
1999 Aiyoku no midarezuma
2004 Tamamono
2018 Yamikin gurentai

Cast & Crew

Director: Imaoka Shinji
Screenplay: Imaoka Shinji, Moriya Fumio
Cinematography: Doyle Christopher
Editing: Memita Ken
Music: Stereo Total
Cast: Masaki Sawa, Umezawa Yoshirō, Narita Ai, Yoshioka Mutsuo, Moriya Fumio, Nishimura Emi, Satō Hiroshi, Ōnishi Yutaka
Producer: Holl Stephan
Production: Inter Film, Interfilm, Kokuei Company
Language: Japanese
Colouration: Colour