| Comments on "The Eel"/"Unagi" |
| I really enjoyed "Unagi" because the film and Koji's character of Yamashita are so different from Sugiyama in "Shall We Dance?". I really began to appreciate Koji Yakusho as an actor in "Unagi". (S. H. New York City) |
| This is the BEST film that I've ever seen among Yakusho's films. I've seen this three times on the video. (I missed its screening in the theater because at that time I didn't know him. It's a shame!) Every time I see this movie, I feel it is a new movie to me. Do Japanese people like knives so much or are they very much involved with knives? In " The Bridge on the River Kwai", Colonel Saito always carries his knife and he tells the British colonel that he (Saito) might rip his own belly open with it, if the bridge can not be built by the right time. In "Unagi", Yakusho also uses his knife very cruelly, killing his wife and in the last part of the movie, the razor was used, too, when he was very upset with the bad guys. Yakusho wonderfully portrays a man who's denied human relationship and talks only to an eel, and at last, finds new hope of life within the world of people. This movie shows precisely what modern Japanese people are. (H.K. Seo of Korea) |
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