Underwater Love (2011)

Underwater Love 2011 / おんなの河童 2011 / Onna no kappa , UNDERWATER LOVE-おんなの河童 , Underwater Love: A Pink Musical

This film by Shinji Imaoka is a fusion of musicals and Japanese pink films. 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. The soundtrack is by French indie-pop band Stereo Total.