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musical about a woman and a sea creature. It is a co-production between Germany's Rapid Eye Movies and Japan's Kokuei Company. It was directed by

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(who had earlier directed the pink films ''

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''), shot by cinematographer

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and includes music by German band

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. ''Underwater Love'' was shot in 5 ½ days, one take only.

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

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– 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 ()

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