Fresh
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.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Cold Fish
He'll make you pick up the pieces.
2011 · 2h 26m · Not Rated
Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Sion Sono
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Cold Fish
Overview
When fish shop owner Shamoto's teenage daughter Mitsuko is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man named Murata helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Mitsuko work at their opposing fish store. Shamoto soon discovers that something far more sinister lives behind Murata's friendly demeanor.
Director and cast
- Sion Sono Director
- Mitsuru Fukikoshi as Nobuyuki Shamoto
- Denden as Yukio Murata
- Asuka Kurosawa as Aiko Murata
- Megumi Kagurazaka as Taeko Shamoto
- Hikari Kajiwara as Mitsuko Shamoto
- Tetsu Watanabe as Takayasu TsuTsui
- Tarō Suwa as Akio Yoshida
- Jyonmyon Pe as Hiroshi Okubo
- Masahiko Sakata as Susumu Kawajiri
- Natsumi Seto as Yuko Sawada
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Cold Fish is wild, head-turning, stomach-churning stuff, and it makes a bracing addition to the overstuffed canon of serial-killer cinema.
Mark Olsen, Village Voice
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