# Underwater Love (2011)

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**Original title**: *おんなの河童*
**Runtime**: 87 min
**Genres**: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
**Directed by**: Shinji Imaoka
**Written by**: Shinji Imaoka, Fumio Moriya
**Starring**: Sawa Masaki, Yoshirô Umezawa, Ai Narita, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Fumio Moriya, Hiroshi Sato

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Apparently love can resurface in weird ways. Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory and is engaged to her boss. Her life gets weirdly complicated by a water sprite with a familiar face.

**Mood tags**: playful, sexy, surreal

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