Film
The Eel
1997 · 1h 57m · Drama · Crime
- IMDb
- 7.3
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 82%
- Metacritic
- 81
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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.
Cast
Koji Yakusho
Takuro Yamashita
Misa Shimizu
Keiko Hattori
Akira Emoto
Tamotsu Takasaki
Fujio Tokita
Jiro Nakajima
Mitsuko Baisho
Misako Nakajima
Show Aikawa
Yuji Nozawa
Ken Kobayashi
Masaki Saito
Sabu Kawahara
Seitaro Misato
Etsuko Ichihara
Fumie Hattori
Tomorowo Taguchi
Eiji Dojima
Chiho Terada
Emiko Yamashita
Sanshō Shinsui
Doctor
Koichi Ueda
Detective Keiji
Ken Mitsuishi
Detective
Hiroyuki Konishi
Medical Examiner
Shoichi Ozawa
Gynaecolology Clinic Doctor
Crew
- Shōhei ImamuraDirector · Screenplay
- Motofumi TomikawaScreenplay
- Daisuke TenganScreenplay
- Akira YoshimuraNovel
- Hisashi IinoProducer
- Shigeru KomatsubaraDirector of Photography
- Shinichiro IkebeOriginal Music Composer
- Hajime OkayasuEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- May 12, 1997
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Rated
- U
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
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