Movie
The Eel
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1997-05-12
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Eisei Gekijo, Groove Corporation, Imamura Productions, Shochiku
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
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
Crew
- Shōhei Imamura - Director
- Shōhei Imamura - Screenplay
- Motofumi Tomikawa - Screenplay
- Daisuke Tengan - Screenplay
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