Imamura Changhei is very good at using some animals as metaphors to symbolize people's behavior, usually animals with scary appearance, such as toads, snakes, eels...
The film is also interspersed with flashbacks of the heroine, showing the entangled past of the heroine Miss Guizi and her ex-husband.
During the period of parole, the male protagonist has always resisted dealings with others, but he did not give up the courage to live. He tested himself for the barber certificate in prison in order to have a way to survive when he came out; in contrast, his Inmate, it seems so failed, sad!
Because of the heroine, he bravely faces the future again, maybe the power of love happens all the time~
Eel = male lead
The eel will eventually swim to the equator and then back to Japanese waters, and so will he.
Also, the lines are so funny
"Did you say he would come?"
"Who"
"UFO"
"Be patient, it will come"
"Everyone is guilty"
"Forget the past and face the future"
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