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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.

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EAN5021866510309

eBay Product ID (ePID)102195636

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Film/TV TitleThe Eel

ActorJiro Nakajima, Keiko Hattori, Koji Yakusho

DirectorShohei Imamura

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

FormatDVD

Release Year2012

LanguageJapanese

FeaturesWith Subtitles

Run Time112 Mins

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Certificate18

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureJapan

ReviewsRolling Stone - An erotic spellbinder, Village Voice - One of the top ten films of the year

Consumer AdviceContains isolated moments of strong violence and sex

Additional InformationVeteran 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 away from his former life, yet still plagued with memories of his crime, Yamashita decides to start anew by opening a barbershop on a quiet road next to a canal. Though inward looking and self-conscious, he eventually befriends a bumptious but good-hearted day laborer, and a construction worker who's obsessed with UFOs. His most fateful encounter though is with a woman named Keiko (Misa Shimizu), who he discovers unconscious following a suicide attempt. Looking to put a few of her own demons to bed, Keiko decides to stay in this sleepy corner of Japan and help her savior with his barbershop. Initially against the idea -- she bears a striking resemblance to his dead spouse -- he eventually agrees and even grows to like having her around. This film won the Grand Prix at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

Movie/TV TitleThe Eel

Sound sourceDolby Digital