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The Eel [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Kôji Yakusho
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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  • Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Akira Emoto, Fujio Tsuneta
  • Directors: Shohei Imamura
  • Writers: Shohei Imamura, Akira Yoshimura, Daisuke Tengan, Motofumi Tomikawa
  • Producers: Hiso Ino, Kazuyoshi Okuyama, Yasushi Matsuda
  • Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: New Yorker Video
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Aug 2001
  • Run Time: 117 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00005NFY5
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 87,024 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars classic imamura, not as sharp as his earlier works,, 14 Mar 2000
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This review is from: The Eel [VHS] [1998] (VHS Tape)
the subject matter is further away from his usual documentary realism in subject matter and is much more like beat takeshi's films that contrast extreme violence with great calm and understanding. Still has some fantastic flourishes both in subject matter and shooting style.
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