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The Eel

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The Eel
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NR,1hr 56min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
August 28, 1998
Director:
Shohei Imamura
Distributor:
Atalanta Filmes
Starring:
Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Tomoroh Taguchi  ...more
Synopsis: Veteran filmmaker and perennial iconoclast Shohei Imamura directs this darkly comic tale about love, redemption, and a man's beloved pet eel. The film opens with Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), a seemingly normal salaryman, learning that his wife might be having an affair. When he catches the couple in flaganto delicto, he freaks out and brutally stabs them both to death. Eight years later, Yamashita is released on parole into the care of a Buddhist priest living in rural Chiba prefecture. Far ... Full Synopsis
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Jonathan Crow, AMG Review
Master filmmaker Shohei Imamura won his second Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival with this oddball tale about a man and his pet eel. Though this film exhibits Imamura's trademark fascination with the messy underside of humanity, where barely repressed sexual and violent urges threaten to bubble to the surface, Unagi is a quieter, more reflective work compared to the ribald absurdity of such earlier ... Full Review
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Koji Yakusho
Takuro Yamashita
Misa Shimizu
Keiko Hattori
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