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Co-winner of the Cannes Palme d'Or (with Taste of Cherry), The Eel is a highly original blend of quirky black comedy, offbeat romance, and surreal fantasy from grand master Shohei Imamura. Koji Yakusho plays Yamashita, a buttoned-down salaryman who savagely murders his adulterous wife. Paroled eight years later, he settles in a remote seaside community, where he confounds his neighbors with his peculiar attachment to his sole friend and confidant: a per eel. The hero's eel-like existence is disrupted by Keiko, a would-be suicide whose life he reluctantly saves.
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