The Eel

White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away; so he 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 to almost 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.

Genres:

Drama

Release:

May 12, 1997

Production:

Eisei Gekijo , Groove Corporation , Imamura Productions , Shochiku

Casts:

Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Akira Emoto, Fujio Tokita, Show Aikawa, Ken Kobayashi, Sabu Kawahara, Etsuko Ichihara, Tomorowo Taguchi, Chiho Terada, Sanshô Shinsui, Koichi Ueda, Ken Mitsuishi, Hiroyuki Konishi, Shoichi Ozawa, Makoto Satō, Fumio Tokita, Shinsho Nakamaru, Sei Hiraizumi, Seiji Kurasaki, Toshirō Ishidō, Masayuki Akinaga, Masahiro Noguchi, Takashi Odajima, Kentarô Sakai, Teresa Saponangelo, Kazuya Sasaki, Kazuyuki Senba, Rumi Shiina, Miho Shimizu, Ziko Uchiyama, Mitsuko Baisho