The tagline for this movie is "A Pink Musical" and it is a kooky musical comedy.

Unlike a lot of pinku movies, this one is well acted and the story line is actually well thought and mapped out. In other words there is both acting and a plot line instead of filler for the nudity.

The movie is well shot and the main actress plays her role very well. The musical and dance number are where she shines. There is an uninhibitedness about her in those scenes and those scenes IMO make the movie.

Being a pinku movie there is of course nudity and sex, even human - mythical creature sex.

A good movie that makes you laugh and smile. Something i would definitely watch again.

Shinji Imaoka is one of the Seven Lucky Gods of Pink (the others are Toshiya Ueno, Mitsuru Meike, Yuji Tajiri, Yoshitaka Kamata, Toshiro Enomoto and Rei Sakamoto) who make some of the strangest and most interesting adult-oriented movies from Japan.

It probably has the best cinematography the adult genre ever has had - outside of the movies Gary Graver worked on - thanks to Christopher Doyle working on this movie. The Australian native has been part of some really famous films, such as Fruit Chan's Dumplings, Gus Van Sant's Psycho and several films with Wong Kar-Wai.

This entire movie was shot in five and a half days, all with only one take per scene.

Asuka works in a fish factory and is about to marry her boss when she meets a legendary river creature known as a kappa. She soon discovers that it is the reincarnation of her first love Aoki, who drowned when they were only seventeen. The film, while adult in nature, tries to explain the feelings of love and loss. And oh yeah, it's also a musical.

Yes, this is probably the only movie where you can see not only singing and dancing, but also what a Japanese water demon's genitals look like. It also has a soundtrack by the French/German duo Stereo Total.

I pride myself in finding strange films, but at no point in my movie-watching life did I say, "I wish that The Shape of Water showed the sex and oh yeah, that everyone occasionally had song and dance numbers." But here we are.

I thought this was an unusual movie when I saw many western names mixed with Japanese names on the initial credit. The movie itself is even more unusual in that it features a kappa, nudity, and some dancing to music by the kappa. Kappa is like the Japanese version of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, but it has long history in Japanese folklore, and there's even speculation that it was an interpretation by the ancient Japanese eye witness of an alien visitation. Kappa appears in other movies such as Great Yokai Wars, and is a popular character in Japanese psyche.

The movie is sort of a love story. Kappa in question is a rebirth of Chage's old school mate that died from drowning. It seems that he came back to save Chage from certain death that is going to happen in few days.

In some ways, this movie is a study in effective movie making. For such a low budget (100k) movie, it holds up to movies that were created with more financial resources. But still, how the creators from Germany, and Japan came together to create this movie is bit of a mystery.

Kind of a cool project movie. It's done with outstanding skillfulness considering the resource, and time that went into its shooting (6 days).

I'm looking forward to see more movies from the producers of this movie.