The Eel (1997)
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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.
- Date of release
- 1997-05-12
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (135)
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
Casting
- 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
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