The Eel
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- Movie: The Eel
- Romaji: Unagi
- Japanese: ăăȘă
- Director: Shohei Imamura
- Writer: Shohei Imamura, Daisuke Tengan
- Producer: Hiso Ino
- Cinematographer: Shigeru Komatsubara
- Release Date: May 24, 1997
- Runtime: 117 min
- Studio: Shochiku
- Distributor: Shochiku
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, 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 almost to 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 wife. She starts to work at his shop, but he doesn't let her become close to him.
Cast
- Koji Yakusho - Takuro Yamashita
- Misa Shimizu - Keiko Hattori
- Mitsuko Baisho - Misako Nakajima
- Akira Emoto - Tamotsu Takasaki
- Fujio Tsuneta - Jiro Nakajima
- Sho Aikawa - Yuji Nozawa
- Ken Kobayashi - Masaki Saito
- Sabu Kawahara - Seitaro Misato
- Etsuko Ichihara - Fumie Hattori
- Tomorowo Taguchi - Eiji Dojima
- Chiho Terada - Emiko Yamashita
- Shinsho Nakamaru
- Sei Hiraizumi
- Seiji Kurasaki
- Toshiro Ishido
- Sansho Shinsui - Doctor
- Koichi Ueda - Detective
- Ken Mitsuishi - Detective
- Hiroyuki Konishi - Medical Examiner
- Shoichi Ozawa - Elderly Doctor
- Teresa Saponangelo
- Makoto Sato - Jukichi Takada
- Miho Shimizu
- Masahiro Noguchi
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