THE EEL (Unagi) is a movie directed by Shohei Imamura in 1997. Golden Palm of the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
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Takuro kills his wife he's just found in bed with a lover. After eight years of prison, he's released on parole. He decides to open a hairdresser shop in the industrial zone of the city. His behaviour is rather strange as he has got into the habit of speaking to a tamed eel which stays in the middle of the shop. One understands soon that Takuro doesn't forgive himself for having killed the woman he loved.
One day, Takuro saves the life of Keiko, a young woman who's tried to commit suicide. Takuro hires Keiko who becomes soon indispensable at the shop. Between these two characters hurted by life, love will little by little find its place.
The review of this Movie prepared by Daniel Staebler
