The Eel (film)

Unagi
Directed byShohei Imamura
Written byShohei Imamura, Daisuke Tengan, Motofumi Tomikawa, Akira Yoshimura
Produced byHiso Ino
Starring
CinematographyShigeru Komatsubara
Edited byHajime Okayasu
Music byShin’ichirō Ikebe
Distributed byShochiku (Japan)
Mongrel Media (North America)
New Yorker Films (Eng-Subs)
Release dates
  • 12 May 1997 (1997-05-12) (Cannes)
  • 24 May 1997 (1997-05-24) (Japan)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$5,151,326[1]

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.

  1. ^ "The Eel". JPBoxoffice. Retrieved March 04, 2012.
  2. ^ "Unagi - Festival de Cannes". Cannes Film Festival (in French). Archived from the original on October 16, 2023. Retrieved October 16, 2023.