About The Eel
- Released on May 12, 1997
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
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
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
Crew of The Eel
Writing
Sound
Art
Directing
Editing
Costume & Make-Up
Crew
- 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