Eel
Shohei Imamura
Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Tomio Konkita, Mitsuko Baisho, Masaru Sato, Shoko Aikawa, Ken Kobayashi, Saburo Kawahara, Chiho Terada, Shinsho Nakamaru, Naruki Matsumoto, Akira Emoto, Misao Hirabayashi, Koichi Ueda, Ken Mitsuishi, Hiroyuki Konishi, Tomohiro Taguchi, Shoichi Ozawa, Etsuko Ichihara, Akira Emoto
1997
Japan
Completed
Japanese
117 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asうなぎ，is aJapanProducerwomen sex，At1997Released in year
。The dialogue language isJapanese，Current Douban rating7.9(For reference only)。
Middle-aged man Takuro Yamashita (Koji Yakusho) witnesses his wife cheating and, in anger, stabs her to death, ending up in prison. Eight years later, after being paroled, he opens a small barber shop by the Tone River in Chiba Prefecture. Due to his past, he finds it hard to trust people, and his only companions are the eels he raises. After inadvertently saving Keiko (Misa Shimizu) from suicide, she stays to work at the barber shop to repay him and, with her cheerful personality, attracts many customers, gradually bringing sunshine back into his life. Yamashita’s former prison mate, Takasaki, is released and starts working in waste disposal near the Tone River, disrupting Yamashita's peaceful life by continually exposing his "ugly past." At the same time, Keiko's former lover, Tojo, arrives to take her and her money away. Although he knows that any conflict could lead him back to prison, Yamashita bravely takes action to protect Keiko.