The Eel
Winner of the 1997 Cannes Palme d'Or and from the director of "The Ballad of Narayama", (also a Palme d'Or winner) comes this wonderful offering about an ordinary man, who having killed his wife and spent eight years in prison for murder, starts afresh as a hairdresser in a remote town while struggling to re-adjust to life on the outside. Koji Yakusho, Keiko Hattori.
Year: 1997
Genre: Japanese Cinema, Cannes - Palme d'Or
Country: Japan
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho
Duration: 117 Minutes
Rating: R18 - Contains violence and sex scenes.
Subtitles: Yes
7.4/10
Location in store: Foreign (Japan)
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