The Eel (1998) more movies like this

directed by Shohei Imamura
featuring Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu

Veteran filmmaker and perennial iconoclast Shohei Imamura directs this darkly comic tale about love, redemption, and a man's beloved pet eel. The film opens with Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho), a seemingly normal salaryman, learning that his wife might be having an affair. When he catches the couple in flaganto delicto , he freaks out and ...

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The Sea Is Watching (2002) more movies like this

directed by Kei Kumai
featuring Eiji Okuda, Renji Ishibashi, Misa Shimizu, Nagiko Tohno, Masatoshi Nagase, Hidetaka Yoshioka

Kei Kumai's Umi Wa Miteita (The Sea Watches) has a script written by the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. O-Shin (Nagiko Tohno) is a geisha. One day a samurai named Fusanosuke (Hidetaka Yoshioka) appears in her town on the run after having killed a man. She assists him by cutting his hair. The two fall in love, despite the protestations from O ...

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Warm Water Under A Red Bridge (2002) more movies like this

directed by Shohei Imamura
featuring Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho

In 1998, Japanese auteur Shohei Imamura announced his retirement with his wild and wooly war drama Kanzo Sensei. His announcement clearly proved to be premature, as exhibited by this bizarre romantic drama about the power of really good sex, based on a book by Henmi Yo. Koji Yakusho -- who starred in Imamura's Unagi along with virtually every ...

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Okoge (1992) more movies like this

directed by Takehiro Nakajima
featuring Misa Shimizu, Takehiro Murata

Takehiro Nakajima directs this romantic drama about a love triangle between two men and a young woman. The film centers on Sayoko (Misa Shimizu of Unagi fame) who works as a voice-over artist for television cartoons. One day she happens upon a lithe young man and his middle-aged lover in mid-kiss. Something about the incident fascinates her, and ...

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