Still crazy after all these years, Shohei Imamura’s Warm Water Under a Red Bridge premiered in 2001 and would prove to be the Japanese auteur’s final film. Imamura’s oeuvre had spanned 17 features by this point, to say nothing of his television documentaries, but Warm Water is perhaps best appreciated as its own wild animal, divorced from the lurid underworld dramas on which … [Read more...]