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Brimming with magical realism, sensuality, and humor, the final film by revered filmmaker Imamura Shôhei tells the story of Sasano Yosuke (Yakusho Kôji), an unemployed salaryman who arrives in a remote fishing village following a rumor of hidden treasure. Instead, he meets Aizawa Saeko (Shimizu Misa), a charming and unusual woman with a unique problem: a well of warm water inside her longing for release. Saeko faces both shame and adoration for her condition, which the local anglers believe feeds the river and its fish. Intrigued and enamored, Yosuke decides to take up a new life as a fisherman. Through their passionate affair, Imamura paints a picture of longing, fantasy, and the search for true happiness in the most unexpected of places that’s both “nonchalantly freaky and uncommonly pleasurable”.

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital.

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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Roxy Cinema

The Last Temptation of Christ and The Flowers of St. Francis have 35mm showings for Easter Weekend, while Barbarella and The Terminator also screen on film; Ken Jacobs’ Two Wrenching Departures plays on Sunday with Jacobs present.

IFC Center

Gregg Araki presents Something Wild on 35mm this Friday, while his film The Doom Generation opens in a director’s cut; Beau Travail offers a Claire Denis fix; Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight screen, while Akira and Barb Wire have late showings, with Wild Things showing on 35mm.

Bam

One of Shôhei Imamura’s last films, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, is screening, while “Queering the Canon” offers films by Lizzie Borden, Funeral Parade of Roses, and more.

Museum of the Moving Image

A series on Jeanne Dielman‘s influences brings the film itself and work by Varda,...

Japanese director Shohei Imamura has died of liver cancer. He was 79. Tokyo-born Imamura was hailed as one of the cinematic icons of Japan's New Wave movement, twice winning the prestigious Palme d'Or at France's prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Famed for concentrating on gritty social issues, he frequently raised eyebrows with his work, which latterly included a piece based on the September 11th terrorist attacks as part of the 2002 short film compilation 11'09''01. Actor Koji Yakusho, who worked with Imamura on 2001 movie Warm Water Under A Red Bridge, calls the film-maker "a treasure." Imamura is survived by his wife Akiko, two sons and a daughter. His funeral has been scheduled for next week.