The Eel

the Eel ( Unagi ) is a Japanese film carried out by Shōhei Imamura, left in 1997, which obtained the Palme of Gold to the Cannes festival, equal with the Taste the cherry Abbas Kiarostami.

Synopsis

Yamashita assassinates his adulteress several stabs. Eight years later, one grants the parole to him. It has in the idea to open a hairdressing salon, in a lost corner of the area of Tōkyō. Repairing an old masonry of its own hands, Yamashita manages to give body to its goal, and the living room opens quickly. Little time afterwards, it goes, completely by chance, to save the life of an young woman after an suicide attempt. This one of soon will require him to work at its sides. In spite of its apprehension, Yamashita will accept, and the young woman will bring in the austere hairdressing salon this key of cheerfulness and femininity which missed until there. Yamashita will however continue to be walled in its dumbness, entrusting more that to an eel, collected when it was still in prison.

Data sheet

  • Title: the Eel
  • original Title: Unagi (うなぎ)
  • English Title: The Eel
  • Realization: Shōhei Imamura
  • Scenario: Shōhei Imamura, Daisuke Tengan and Motofumi Tomikawa, according to the news To scintillate in darkness , of Akira Yoshimura
  • Production: Hiso Ino and Kazuyoshi Okuyama
  • Production companies: KSS, Eisei Gekijo, Groove Corporation, Imamura Production
  • Music: Shin' ichirō Ikebe
  • Photography: Shigeru Komatsubara
  • Assembly: Hajime Okayasu
  • Decorations: Hisao Inagaki
  • Country of origin: Japan
  • Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - Mono - 35 mm
  • Kind: Drama
  • Lasted: 117 minutes
  • Comings out date: May 12th 1997 (Cannes festival), May 24th 1997 (Japan), October 1st 1997 (France)

Distribution

  • Kôji Yakusho : Takuro Yamashita
  • Misa Shimizu : Keiko Hattori
  • Mitsuko Baisho : Misako Nakajima
  • Akira Emoto : Tamotsu Takasaki
  • Fujio Tsuneta : Jiro Nakajima
  • Sho Aikawa : Yuji Nozawa
  • Ken Kobayashi : Masaki Saito
  • Sabu Kawahara : Seitaro Misato
  • Etsuko Ichihara : Fumie Hattori
  • Tomorowo Taguchi : Eiji Dojima
  • Chiho Terada : Emiko Yamashita

External bonds

  • the Eel on Internet Movie Database
  • Analyze of the film
  • Critiques Cinemasie
  • Critiques HK Handled

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