The Eel [1997]
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.