Unagi - Shohei Imamura (1997)
Unagi - Shohei Imamura (1997)
aka: "The Eel" - "L'Anguille" - "La anguila" - "A Enguia" - "L'anguilla"
DVDRIP | 112 min | MKV-x264 720x384 | 25 fps | Ogg Vorbis 128 kb/s | 1.39 GB
Languages: audio 1 Japanese - audio 2 French | Subtitles: English - French - Spanish - Brazilian Portuguese - Italian in 5 optional srt files
Genre: Drama
aka: "The Eel" - "L'Anguille" - "La anguila" - "A Enguia" - "L'anguilla"
DVDRIP | 112 min | MKV-x264 720x384 | 25 fps | Ogg Vorbis 128 kb/s | 1.39 GB
Languages: audio 1 Japanese - audio 2 French | Subtitles: English - French - Spanish - Brazilian Portuguese - Italian in 5 optional srt files
Genre: Drama
Director: Shohei Imamura
Writers: Daisuke Tengan, Motofumi Tomikawa, Shohei Imamura, Akira Yoshimura
Japan - 1997 - color
Cast: Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Akira Emoto, Fujio Tsuneta, Shô Aikawa, Ken Kobayashi, Chiho Terada, Sabu Kawahara, Etsuko Ichihara, Tomorowo Taguchi
Businessman Yamashita receives an anonymous letter, telling him that a strange man visits his wife whenever he's out at night fishing. After pondering for a long time, he sets out for the seaside one night with the intention of returning early and finding out the truth. Indeed he finds his wife in bed with a stranger, enjoying herself with an abandon Yamashita has never experienced. In a daze, he enters the bedroom with a knife in his hand and kills his wife.
After serving eight years in prison, he is released into the care of his parole officer, an elderly priest who brings him to his home town and introduces him to a deserted barber shop. There the former salaryman can ply the new trade he learnt in captivity. Upon his release, Yamashita takes with him only the clothes on his back and the eel that he raised in the prison pond. To the institutionalised and alienated Yamashita, the eel serves as a way to avoid communicating with others. But the men of the small, desolate town soon start frequenting his shop, mostly because they have nothing better to do, and a circle of friends quickly forms around the shy, reluctant barber.
While out fishing, he saves the life of Keiko, a woman attempting to commit suicide after a disastrous relationship with a scheming boyfriend who used her to get to her mother's money. This act may put Yamashita right in the cosmic scheme of things - he took a life and saved one - but for himself things are more complicated. It does however prove to be the turning point. A few days later, Keiko is assisting him in his barbershop and the possibility of something resembling a normal life is opening up to him. He's not too eager to embrace it, but since both are carrying the weight of a dark past, a bond inevitably forms which grows stronger when both their pasts come back to haunt them.
Unagi - Shohei Imamura (1997)
Unagi - Shohei Imamura (1997)
Unagi - Shohei Imamura (1997)
Unagi - Shohei Imamura (1997)
Unagi - Shohei Imamura (1997)
Unagi - Shohei Imamura (1997)
