Eel [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] - Region 1 DVD

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Directed by :

Shohei Imamura

Starring :

Kôji Yakusho

Misa Shimizu

Mitsuko Baisho

Akira Emoto

Fujio Tokita

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Description: 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 ou ... (more)

Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Release date: 28 August 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9781567302387 UPC: 717119679149

Tags: Foreign (1), Japanese (1)

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