Category: Japan
![Unagi (1997) [Director’s Cut] AKA The Eel](https://4films.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/kiWR77j2Bmohv4JWeMvd9k63AHO.jpg "Unagi (1997) [Director’s Cut] AKA The Eel")
Unagi (1997) [Director’s Cut] AKA The Eel
White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he’s away; so he suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a barber in prison) and talks to almost no one except for the eel he “befriended” in prison. One day he finds the unconscious body of Keiko, who attempted suicide and reminds him of his…
No raifu kingu (1991) AKA No Life King
The solemn, intent faces of the Japanese schoolboys playing video games in Jun Ichikawa’s “No Life King” bespeak a new…
Umi to dokuyaku (1986) AKA The Sea and Poison
Never one to shy away from uncomfortable topics, Kei Kumai adapted Shusaku Endo’s 1957 novel The Sea and Poison into…
Ikinai (1998) AKA Suicide Bus
A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from her uncle. The tour appears to be…
