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Actors: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Eel |
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THE EEL (Unagi) is a movie directed by Shohei Imamura in 1997. Golden Palm of the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
Takuro kills his wife he's just found in bed with a lover. After eight years of prison, he's released on parole. He decides to open a hairdresser shop in the industrial zone of the city. His behaviour is rather strange as he has got into the habit of speaking to a tamed eel which stays in the middle of the shop. One understands soon that Takuro doesn't forgive himself for having killed the woman he loved.
One day, Takuro saves the life of Keiko, a young woman who's tried to commit suicide. Takuro hires Keiko who becomes soon indispensable at the shop. Between these two characters hurted by life, love will little by little find its place.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- workplace romance
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Struggle with
- guilt over actions that lead to death/injury
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- fisherman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
Water?
Yes
Water:
- river
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- use of artificial tools
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- sex with icepick
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Japanese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
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