Underwater Love (Doyle + Imaoka + Nishimura = Pink Musical)

[HungFist]

"It is one of the strangest on-screen combinations in recent days. Shinji Imaoka - one of the acknowledged masters of 'pink' film, a subset of Japanese soft porn - recruited hugely acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle - frequent collaborator of Wong Kar Wai - to shoot a sex fantasy about a young woman who falls in love with a mythical kappa, a turtle like creature with a noted fondness for cucumbers. The creature effects were provided by Tokyo Gore Police director Yoshihiro Nishimura and they had just five days to shoot it. And, oh yes, it's also a song-and-dance musical with original tunes provided by Germany's Stereo Total."
- http://twitchfilm.com/news/2011/05/the- ... oaning.php

[HungFist]

Japanese trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRyqHy4VWwM
JP website: http://www.uwl-kappa.com/ (currently empty)

[HungFist]

Extracted this into a topic of its own.

Imaoka is quite an interesting pink director. I've seen his film Uncle's Paradise, which is a nice combination of good characters, grainy indie style seaside visuals, and wtf-factor (the film's climax takes place in hell). I missed Tasogare when it played in Helsinki (with Imaoka in person), but The Japan Times critic Mark Schilling wrote "Calling it good for a pink film is like calling Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story) good for a home drama: though hardly a worldwide classic, it transcends its genre." I'd like to see Frong Song, too.

[HungFist]

Out on DVD November 7th, 2011 from Third Window Films
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGpBPWDPnpw

[HungFist]

Fangoria review:
http://www.fangoria.com/index.php?optio ... Itemid=255

[HungFist]

Underwater Love has been moved to November 21st

no chance on underwater love bluray, especially in this current situation. Will be a true PAL transfer and LE set with cd
- http://twitter.com/#!/thirdwindow

Soundtrack and native PAL, awesome.

[HungFist]

- http://thirdwindowfilms.com/films/underwater-love

DVD Release Date:
November 21st, 2011

DVD Specifications:
Anamorphic widescreen with removable english subtitles

DVD Bonus Features:
3 Interviews with Christopher Doyle. Behind the Scenes footage. Theatrical Trailer. First 2,000 copies include a limited edition soundtrack CD by Stereo Total

[HungFist]

Bloody hell. This turned out to be one on the year's best films!

[HungFist]

Review:
http://sketchesofcinema.wordpress.com/2 ... ater-love/

DVD note:
Third Window Film’s UK release is well worth picking up, being native pal for once, and featuring the excellent original soundtrack on CD (limited to 2000 copies)

More caps

[HungFist]

R2J 2012/05/26
- http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_dvd. ... sid=829702

No specs yet, but I don't see how this could make a better purchase than the Third Window Films edition (native pal, good extras, full soundtrack cd...)