--- title: 'The Eel (1997)' type: 'film' director: 'Shohei Imamura' released: '1997-05-12' runtime_minutes: 110 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-eel-1997' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120408/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Eel (1997) 1997 · 110 min · Drama · Japan Original title: うなぎ ## Synopsis The Eel is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Shōhei Imamura and starring Kōji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, and Akira Emoto. The film is loosely based on the novel On Parole by celebrated author Akira Yoshimura, combined with elements from the director's 1966 film The Pornographers. It shared the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival with Taste of Cherry. It also won the 1998 Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year. ## Credits - **Director:** [Shohei Imamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/shohei-imamura) - **Screenplay:** [Shohei Imamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/shohei-imamura), [Akira Yoshimura](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-yoshimura), [Daisuke Tengan](https://cinepixo.com/people/daisuke-tengan) - **Editor:** [Hajime Okayasu](https://cinepixo.com/people/hajime-okayasu) - **Original Music Composer:** [Shinichiro Ikebe](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinichiro-ikebe) - **Director of Photography:** [Shigeru Komatsubara](https://cinepixo.com/people/shigeru-komatsubara) ## Cast - [Fujio Tokita](https://cinepixo.com/people/fujio-tokita) - [Kōji Yakusho](https://cinepixo.com/people/koji-yakusho) - [Makoto Satō](https://cinepixo.com/people/makoto-sato) - [Tomorowo Taguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomorowo-taguchi) - [Misa Shimizu](https://cinepixo.com/people/misa-shimizu) - [Teresa Saponangelo](https://cinepixo.com/people/teresa-saponangelo) - [Etsuko Ichihara](https://cinepixo.com/people/etsuko-ichihara) - [Mitsuko Baishō](https://cinepixo.com/people/mitsuko-baisho) - [Shō Aikawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/sho-aikawa) - [Sei Hiraizumi](https://cinepixo.com/people/sei-hiraizumi) - [Ken Mitsuishi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-mitsuishi) - [Shoichi Ozawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/shoichi-ozawa) - [Akira Emoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-emoto) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-eel-1997 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1156892); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.