Unagi The eel
(1998)
Fiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/JAPANESE/EEL
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : New Yorker Video, [1998]
©1998
©1998
EDITION
Letterboxed
DESCRIPTION
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
1567302386 DVD 67901
LANGUAGE
Japanese
NOTES
Credits from subtitles
Yamashita's quiet country life is fatally changed when he finds out about his wife's affair and murders her. On parole after eight years in prison, he returns to his sleepy hometown to open a small barber shop. His only solace is an eel that he has kept as a pet until, as a favor to the town's priest, he agrees to help a young woman with a troubled past
"DVD 67901"--Container
Director of photography, Shigeru Komatsubara ; music, Shinichiro Ikebe
Kōji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Fujio Tokita, Mitsuko Baisho, Makoto Sato, Akira Emoto, Etsuko Ichihara
Not rated
DVD format
In Japanese with optional English subtitles
Winner of the Palme d'Or Cannes 1997