Lauw water onder een rode brug (Akai hashi noshitano nurui mizu)

Yosuke, an unemployed man in his forties, has just been left by his wife. On the advice of an old tramp, he travels to a faraway village, to a certain house, from where one can see a red bridge. In this house there should be a jar containing a gold Buddha, stolen from a temple in Kyoto by this old tramp. The man does not find the jar, but meets a woman, Saeko, who lives in the house. This strange, kleptomaniac woman has the power to make flowers bloom out of season and to attract fish from the sea to the river by the water she secretes when she experiences physical pleasure. When bathing in this water, Yosuke discovers that his vitality is coming back ...