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Unagi = The eel / Eisei Gekijo Co, Ltd. ; a New Yorker Film release ; Shochiku presents ; a film by Shohei Imamura ; produced by Hisa Iino ; produced by Satellite Cinema and KSS ; in cooperation with Imamura Productions ; directed by Shohei Imamura ; screenplay by Motofumi Tomikawa, Daisuke Tengan and Shohei Imamura.
うなぎ = The eel Eisei Gekijo Co, Ltd. ; a film by Shohei Imamura.
LIBRA DVD 003 421
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Great directors.
- Great directors
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Yoshimura, Akira, 1927-2006.
- Barbers.
- Yoshimura, Akira, 1927-2006--Film adaptations.
- Yoshimura, Akira.
- Adultery--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Murder--Drama.
- Murder.
- Barbers--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Crime films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Letterbox.
- Other Title:
- Eel
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New Yorker Video, [2001]
- Language Note:
- Japanese dialogue, English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Finding his wife in bed with another man, Takuro Yamashita murders her, serves an eight year prison sentence, and then moves to a small town to begin life anew as a barber. When he hires a young woman as his assistant, her past collides with his to the detriment of all.
- Participant:
- Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimzu, Fujio Tsuneta, Akira Emoto.
- Notes:
- Director of photography, Shigeru Komatsubara; editor, Hajime Okayasu; music by Shinchiro Ikebe.
- Based on the novel Unagi / by Akira Yoshimura.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1998.
- Winner of Palme d'or at Cannes.
- Some production credits from English-language trailer and container.
- Special features: original theatrical trailer; cast and director profiles and filmographies.
- ISBN:
- 1567302386
- 9781567302387
- OCLC:
- 50012136
- Publisher Number:
- 717119679149
- DVD 67901 New Yorker Video
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