Woman of Water

UA plays Ryo, a young woman who runs a countryside bathhouse with her father. Most appropriately, she is known among the locals as a ‘water woman’ due to the fact that it starts to rain every time she experiences strong emotions. One day she meets a handsome young man called Yusaku (Asano) who goes to work for her in the boiler room, where he stokes the fires that heat the bath water. Also most appropriately, and conveniently, he is an arsonist, wanted by the police. A man of fire, in other words. —Midnight Eye