A brief update to the announcement I posted last Friday about new pink film musical Underwater Love (Onna no Kappa,『おんなの河童』) directed by Imaoka Shinji and shot by legendary cinematographer Christopher Doyle.
I received the first set of press notes yesterday after visiting the set in Ibaraki Prefecture. I thought Twitch Film would be the best place to get details out, so you can read all about it in its baffling glory here.
Despite a low budget (though higher than the usual pinku eiga production!), Underwater Love has some very special locations and sequences in store. Yesterday took me two hours outside of Tokyo to a small rural factory situated next to Kasumigaura Lake, complete with quaint old fishing boats and a log pier.
As I tweeted yesterday, Underwater Love is the most surreal set I've ever been on. Watching Chris Doyle work under the blazing hot sun was inspiring, and only added to the strange beauty of what transpired.
Imagine, if you will: Doyle and his crack pink film crew capture three kappa (including a female one), a buxom vixen, a Rastafarian-inspired "God of Death" and a group of rubber-aproned female fish factory workers as they do a goofy para para dance routine to music by Stereo Total playing on a cheap boom box on the grass in front of expansive green lotus fields.
I'll be writing more impressions of my set visit along with some great photos, which again will be posted on Twitch first.
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