Warm Water Under a Red Bridge Critic Reviews

May well be Imamura's funniest film; it is also one of his most accomplished. It is the work of a mature artist who has kept his adventurous spirit alive, which he has expressed in a complex and risky work carried off with an effortlessness that comes only from wisdom and experience.Read the full review

Imamura's delight in the infinite oddity of men and women is goofy; it's also, at heart, reverent.Read the full review

No porno flick posing as art. Nor is it science fiction, though it does contain a few scenes with B-movie overtones. This is a deep and meaningful film, ultimately far more poignant than it is titillating.Read the full review

This story is unthinkable in a Hollywood movie, but there is something about the matter-of-fact way Saeko explains her problem, and the surprised but not stunned way that Yosuke hears her, that takes the edge off.Read the full review

One never knows where "Warm Water" is going and even though the film's objective feels a little fuzzy even at the end a parable on female sexuality? an ode to liberty? there's such a joy in the telling that it doesn't matter terribly.Read the full review

Funny and endearing.Read the full review

A film with a terrifically engaging concept that overstays its welcome by quite a stretch.Read the full review