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Winner of the 1997 Cannes Palme d’Or, THE EEL is the story of an ordinary man who comes home one day to find his wife in bed with another man.
In a fit of rage, Takura Yamashita (Koji Yakusho) kills his wife and then spends eight years in prison for murder. On parole he starts life as a hairdresser in a remote town, shunning most human contact and consoling himself with the company of the eel he kept in prison.
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But a chance encounter with a young woman struggling to overcome difficulties of her own helps Takura to re-adjust to life on the outside.
Shohei Imamura is one of only four directors (the others being Francis Coppola, Bille August,
and Emir Kusturica) to have been awarded the Palme d’Or twice.
He won also for ‘The Ballad of Narayama’ in 1983.
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