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Article: JUMP INTO 'WARM WATER'.(U)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2002
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Byline: Bob Strauss Film Critic
AGING JAPANESE bad-boy director Shohei Imamura (``Pigs and Battleships,'' ``Ballad of Narayama'') comes up with a doozy in ``Warm Water Under a Red Bridge.''
Based on a novel by Yo Henmi, the movie has something to say about Japan's (collapsing) corporate capitalist system and what fools men are who confuse their identities with their work.
But while those things give this exercise a little intellectual legitimacy, it's not what anybody's going to notice. You see, there's this woman. And when she's happy, well, everything in the immediate vicinity gets very, very wet.
Use your imagination. The movie, to ...