SummaryIn the film, mild-mannered Shamoto’s teenage daughter gets caught shoplifting. A generous fellow fish-store owner and his wife appear to help resolve the situation by having her work at their fish store. Too good to be true? You bet! Shamoto soon discovers the horrific truth about this seemingly perfect couple…who inextricably weave him into th... Read More
Directed By:Sion Sono
Written By:Sion Sono, Yoshiki Takahashi
Cold Fish
Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
60% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
20% Mixed
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1 Review
20% Negative
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1 Review
Aug 4, 2011
90
A deliciously warped wallow in misogyny, depravity and dead-eyed manipulation, Cold Fish charts the twisted alliance of two tropical-fish salesmen with baleful glee.
Aug 2, 2011
80
Cold Fish is wild, head-turning, stomach-churning stuff, and it makes a bracing addition to the overstuffed canon of serial-killer cinema.
Aug 1, 2011
70
Like most Sono pictures, too long. But its gleeful humor and dare-you-to-watch aesthetic will help it rack up kills at specialty fests.
Sep 22, 2014
40
Described as a darkly comic horror movie, Cold Fish manages to defy the trade descriptions act on both fronts.
Aug 1, 2011
0
A hybrid of the millionth send-up of the repressed/impotent Japanese patriarch and the "bad buddy comedy" that Barry Levinson held up as exhausted and bankrupt with 2004's "Envy."
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
65% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
35% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Jul 4, 2021
5
The weary urge to resort to bloodbaths and violence, especially in its climax, demonstrates many of Sono's weaknesses.
Especially his inability to be concise and understand that you don't need to go too far when you're not saying anything relevant.
Cold Fish it's gruesome and unapologetic, but so what? I take nothing from the experience.
Production Company:
- Toho
- Nikkatsu
- Stairway
Release Date:Aug 5, 2011
Duration:2 h 24 m
Tagline:How far will you be pushed?
Awards
Kinema Junpo Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Deauville Asian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Awards of the Japanese Academy
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
