The Eel
Summary:
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. ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Koji Yakusho - (Takuro Yamashita)
Misa Shimizu - (Keiko Hattori)
Mitsuko Baisho - (Misako Nakajima)
Etsuko Ichihara - (Fumie Hattori)
Tomoroh Taguchi - (Eiji Dojima)
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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, ... Continue >>
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