The Eel (film)
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The Eel (うなぎ, Unagi) is a 1997 film directed by Shohei Imamura and starring Kōji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, and Akira Emoto. The film is loosely based on the novel On Parole by celebrated author Akira Yoshimura, combined with elements from the director's 1966 film The Pornographers. It shared the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival with Taste of Cherry.[2] It also won the 1998 Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year.
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Directed by | Shohei Imamura |
Written by | Shohei Imamura, Daisuke Tengan, Motofumi Tomikawa, Akira Yoshimura |
Produced by | Hiso Ino |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Shigeru Komatsubara |
Edited by | Hajime Okayasu |
Music by | Shin’ichirō Ikebe |
Distributed by | Shochiku (Japan) Mongrel Media (North America) New Yorker Films (Eng-Subs) |
Release dates | 12 May 1997 (premiere at Cannes) 24 May 1997 (Japan) 21 August 1998 (U.S.) 20 November 1998 (UK) |
Running time | 117 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $5,151,326[1] |
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