Woman of Water

Woman of Water

2002
Drama
Fantasy
1h 55m
Woman of Water is set in and around a public bathhouse in rural Japan run by Ryo (UA) and her elderly father. All the major events in her life are accompanied by rainfall, most significantly the day that both her father and boyfriend die in separate incidents during an unrelenting downpour. Now alone, Ryo must run the bathhouse herself and come to grips with her strange powers. She meets Yusaku (Tadanobu Asano), a young man obsessed with fire, whom she hires to stoke the bathhouse's furnace. (rottentomatoes.com)
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Woman of Water

2002
Drama
Fantasy
1h 55m
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Rated 31 Jan 2015
72
71st
Essentially sort of silly, but consistently aesthetically accomplished enough to never be less than engaging, in a certain Minimalist Asian Festival Film sort of way that i would have probably liked even more a few years ago (think saturated colors, long takes, sparse dialogue, and an all-around pervasive air of ruminative, "poetic" moodiness). Plot-wise, it's about as unsubtly "symbolic" as a Kim Ki-Duk film with an added dose of New Age-y mystical hokum but a lot less misogynistic at least.

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