White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, 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 almost to 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.
Credits
The Eel Cast
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Character |
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Kōji Yakusho
He was 41, now 69 years old
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as Takuro Yamashita |
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Akira Emoto
He was 48, now 76 years old
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as Tamotsu Takasaki |
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Etsuko Ichihara
She was 61, 82 years old when she died
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as Fumie Hattori |
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Mitsuko Baisho
She was 50, now 78 years old
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as Misako Nakajima |
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Tomoro Taguchi
He was 39, now 67 years old
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as Eiji Dojima |
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Misa Shimizu
She was 26, now 54 years old
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as Keiko Hattori |
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Fujio Tokita
He was 60, 81 years old when he died
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as Jiro Nakajima |
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Teresa Saponangelo
She was 23, now 51 years old
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Sei Hiraizumi
He was 53, now 81 years old
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Ken Kobayashi
He was 48, now 75 years old
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as Masaki Saito |
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Kazuyuki Senba
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Sho Aikawa
He was 35, now 63 years old
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as Yuji Nozawa |
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Ken Mitsuishi
He was 35, now 63 years old
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as Detective |
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Kôichi Ueda
He was 56, now 83 years old
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as Keiji - A detective |
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Shoichi Ozawa
He was 68, 83 years old when he died
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as Gynaecolology Clinic Doctor |
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Toshirô Ishidô
He was 64, 79 years old when he died
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Sabu Kawahara
He was 50, now 78 years old
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as Seitaro Misato |
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Seiji Kurasaki
He was 37, now 64 years old
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Makoto Satō
He was 39, 49 years old when he died
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as Jukichi Takada |
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Rumi Shiina
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Masahiro Noguchi
He was 28, now 56 years old
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Chiho Terada
She was 27, now 55 years old
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as Emiko Yamashita |
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Kentaro Sakai
He was 21, now 49 years old
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Fumio Tokita
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as Nakajima |
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Sanshô Shinsui
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as Doctor |
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Ziko Uchiyama
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Masayuki Akinaga
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Takashi Odajima
He was 40, now 68 years old
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Hiroyuki Konishi
was 33, now 61 years old
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as Medical Examiner |
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Kazuya Sasaki
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Miho Shimizu
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Shinshô Nakamaru
He was 48, now 75 years old
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The Eel Crew
