Cast and Crew of The Eel

Cast of
The Eel

About The Eel

  • Released on May 12, 1997
  • Drama

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.

Full Cast of The Eel

Koji Yakusho
plays Takuro Yamashita

Koji Yakusho as Takuro Yamashita

Koji Yakusho was born on January 1, 1956 and is currently 68 years old.

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Misa Shimizu
plays Keiko Hattori

Akira Emoto
plays Tamotsu Takasaki

Fujio Tokita
plays Jiro Nakajima

Show Aikawa
plays Yuji Nozawa

Ken Kobayashi
plays Masaki Saito

Sabu Kawahara
plays Seitaro Misato

Etsuko Ichihara
plays Fumie Hattori

Etsuko Ichihara as Fumie Hattori

Ichihara Etsuko was born January 24, 1936 in Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. She is a veteran actress and voice actre...

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Tomorowo Taguchi
plays Eiji Dojima

Chiho Terada
plays Emiko Yamashita

Sanshô Shinsui
plays Doctor

Koichi Ueda
plays Keiji - A detective

Ken Mitsuishi
plays Detective

Hiroyuki Konishi
plays Medical Examiner

Shoichi Ozawa
plays Gynaecolology Clinic Doctor

Makoto Satō
plays Jukichi Takada

Fumio Tokita
plays Nakajima

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
plays Misako Nakajima


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