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The Eel (うなぎ, Japan, 1998, DVD)
An uneven film, to the point that I was disappointed. I like Imamura Shohei films very much, but The Eel didn’t live up to expectations. What I didn’t like: Imamura’s now-cliché touches of surrealism, the near-slapstick fight scene in the barbershop (which reminded me with the final dinner table explosion in Family Game), the somewhat [...]