The Eel

6.9
  • Genre: DramaCrime
  • Run time: 117 min
  • Premiere: 1997. May 12.

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.

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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

Makoto Satō

Jukichi Takada

Shinsho Nakamaru

Emiko Yamashita's Boyfriend

Sei Hiraizumi

Prison Officer

Seiji Kurasaki

Toshirō Ishidō

Masayuki Akinaga

Masahiro Noguchi

Takashi Odajima

Kentarô Sakai

Kazuya Sasaki

Kazuyuki Senba

Rumi Shiina

Miho Shimizu

Zeeko Uchiyama

Art

Hisao Inagaki

Production Design

Toshiharu Aida

Set Decoration

Yoshio Yamada

Set Decoration

Costume & Make-Up

Shigeko Ikawa

Makeup Artist

Kazuo Matsuda

Costume Supervisor

Crew

Shigeru Komatsubara

Cinematography

Directing

Shōhei Imamura

Director

Editing

Hajime Okayasu

Editor

Sound

Shinichirô Ikebe

Original Music Composer

Writing

Motofumi Tomikawa

Writer

Akira Yoshimura

Novel

Shōhei Imamura

Writer

Daisuke Tengan

Writer

Art

Hisao Inagaki

Production Design

Toshiharu Aida

Set Decoration

Yoshio Yamada

Set Decoration

Costume & Make-Up

Shigeko Ikawa

Makeup Artist

Kazuo Matsuda

Costume Supervisor

Crew

Shigeru Komatsubara

Cinematography

Directing

Shōhei Imamura

Director

Editing

Hajime Okayasu

Editor

Sound

Shinichirô Ikebe

Original Music Composer

Writing

Motofumi Tomikawa

Writer

Akira Yoshimura

Novel

Shōhei Imamura

Writer

Daisuke Tengan

Writer