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The Eel (1997)
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
Drama, Crime · 1h 57m
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
Crew
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Screenplay
- Shōhei Imamura, Motofumi Tomikawa, Daisuke Tengan
- Novel
- Akira Yoshimura
- Director of Photography
- Shigeru Komatsubara
- Original Music Composer
- Shinichiro Ikebe
- Editor
- Hajime Okayasu
- Producer
- Hisashi Iino
Details
- Original title
- うなぎ
- Release date
- 1997-05-12
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Eisei Gekijo, Groove Corporation, Imamura Productions, Shochiku