In the film, the frustrated man meets the beloved woman and is redeemed. It is the pleasure of sex that gives them the motivation to call for happiness, and the encounter of love gives them a new life. In a sense, the heroine with magical physique is the hope of the hero's life, so this love story with "water" as the key word has become an fable. This film, which fully embodies the aesthetic feeling, eulogizes harmonious sex. The red bridge connects the hero and heroine, and "water" leads them to happiness. The treasure under the red bridge mentioned by the old man is actually true love. The bold and vivid description and rich and warm implication of the film made it widely praised at Cannes Film Festival. K?ji Yakusho, the actor in the play, won the title of Best Actor at the Japanese Academy Award for this film.