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The Eel [1998]

VHS ~ K�ji Yakusho

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Product details

Actors: K�ji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Akira Emoto, Fujio Tsuneta
Directors: Shohei Imamura
Format: PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language Japanese
Classification:
Studio: Artificial Eye
VHS Release Date: 24 May 1999
Run Time: 117 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(1 customer review)

ASIN: B00004CYLP
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,534 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)
Popular in this category:
#16 in Video > World Cinema > Japanese > Drama

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Catching his young wife having sex with another man, a jealous husband stabs her to death. Hardly the regular way to start a comedy but, as a filmmaker, Shohei Imamura has always operated according to his own rules. The Eel, his first film after an eight-year break, traces the slow rehabilitation of a man self-exiled from society. The murder serves as prelude to the main action in which, having served eight years in jail, Takuro Yamashita is paroled to a remote lakeside settlement. He sets up as the world's least talkative barber, his sole confidant the titular eel. But the arrival of a troubled young woman slowly changes his outlook on life. It could easily fit the formulaic Hollywood feel-good drama, but Imamura's idiosyncratic vision and oblique narrative style keeps the film pushing away from conventionality. Surreal, dream-like episodes collide with bursts of near-slapstick and quiet moments of lyrical beauty. The privacy of the characters is always respected, and to the end Takuro remains an enigma. As slippery as an eel, the film is a beguiling peculiarity of a movie with a flavour all its own. --Philip Kemp

Synopsis
A man comes home and finds his wife in bed with another man. He kills his wife in a fit of jealous rage and is sent to prison. Years later he finds work as a hairdresser in a remote town. A local woman helps him to overcome the difficulties of life on the outside. Winner of the Cannes Palme D'Or 1997. Japanese dialogue with subtitles.