August in the Water (1995)
- Original title
- 水の中の八月
- Directed by
- Gakuryū Ishii
- Genre
- fantasy film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 33 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A teenage girl in a small Japanese town starts having strange experiences after a comet passes overhead. She seems to be connected to water in a mystical way as unexplained events begin to occur.
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What happens
August in the Water (Japanese: 水の中の八月, Hepburn: Mizu no naka no hachigatsu) is a 1995 supernatural science fiction drama film by Japanese director Gakuryū Ishii. The director has cited English language science fiction authors Philip K. Dick and J. G. Ballard as inspirations for his "trippy, metaphysical" films of the 1990s, and The Japan Times' critic Mark Schilling cited this film as an example of his "poetic and spiritual films" that followed his punk films of the previous decade. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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