The Eel.

From: The Nation | Date: September 7, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

When I say that Shohei Imamura's The Eel may be the cheeriest, most hopeful film of his great career, you must understand that it begins with an office worker slashing to death his adulterous wife. The salaryman, you see, is dedicated to sport fishing, and fishermen carry knives. They also abandon their wives for long hours in the night. To the director of Vengeance Is Mine, it must be astonishing that Japan has any married anglers at all.

The opening sequence seems emblematically Imamuralike: from the voyeur's window-framed view of the sex act (done doggie-style) to the ...

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