The Eel (1997)
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.
- Released
- 1997-05-12
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Shōhei Imamura, Shōhei Imamura, Motofumi Tomikawa, Daisuke Tengan
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 135 votes
Cast
- Koji Yakusho as Takuro Yamashita
- Misa Shimizu as Keiko Hattori
- Akira Emoto as Tamotsu Takasaki
- Fujio Tokita as Jiro Nakajima
- Mitsuko Baisho as Misako Nakajima
- Show Aikawa as Yuji Nozawa
- Ken Kobayashi as Masaki Saito
- Sabu Kawahara as Seitaro Misato
- Etsuko Ichihara as Fumie Hattori
- Tomorowo Taguchi as Eiji Dojima
- Chiho Terada as Emiko Yamashita
- Sanshō Shinsui as Doctor