The Eel

After serving time in prison for murdering his unfaithful wife, Yamashita (Koji Yakusho, Perfect Days, Cure) is released on parole, accompanied only by his pet eel. Hoping to stay out of trouble, he takes over a rural barber shop that quickly becomes a gathering point for the eccentric locals. However, the discovery of a woman's failed suicide starts a chain reaction that brings back past demons - and not just his own. The Eel won master filmmaker Shohei Imamura his second Palme d'Or, after 1983's The Ballad of Narayama and was the breakthrough of its star, Yakusho.

Special Features

Bonus Footage, Interviews: Daisuke Tengan (screenwriter); Tony Rayns (critic), Visual essay by Tom Mes on the year 1997 as a turning point in Japanese cinema, Trailers

Actors: Shô Aikawa, Ken Kobayashi, Tomorô Taguchi, Etsuko Ichihara, Mitsuko Baishô, Fujio Tokita, Akira Emoto, Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Sabu Kawahara

Audio Languages: Japanese

Duration: 117 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English

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