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Cold Fish (冷たい熱帯魚, Tsumetai Nettaigyo) is a 2010 Japanese serial killer film directed by Sion Sono. The film is about a quiet and unambitious owner of a tropical fish shop whose life and family are taken over by a fellow fish entrepreneur who happens to be a serial killer. The film is loosely based on the exploits of two Tokyo serial killers, Sekine Gen and Hiroko Kazama, a husband and wife duo who owned a pet shop and murdered at least four people.
Cold Fish premiered at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2010 and received the best screenplay award in the Fantastic Features section at Fantastic Fest 2010.
Following Alien vs Ninja and Mutant Girls Squad, Cold Fish is the third film to be released by Nikkatsu's Sushi Typhoon, their gore-themed series. Director and writer Sion Sono was influenced by Japanese crime cases while developing Cold Fish, specifically about an actual killing spree committed by a dog kennel owner in the 1980s (the story of the film involves a family of three that becomes entangled in a string of ongoing murders perpetrated by a tropical fish salesman in Shizuoka Prefecture). Sono also wanted to "depict a sense of total hopelessness" which he felt is "lacking in Japanese films."
Actors: Sadao Abe (actor), Teruyuki Kagawa (actor), Masaya Katô (actor), Kôichi Satô (actor), Chihiro Kameyama (producer), Susumu Terajima (actor), Nao Ômori (actor), Takayuki Yamada (actor), Minami Ichikawa (producer), Ryôko Shinohara (actress), Shimako Sato (writer), Shimako Sato (director), Norihito Sumitomo (composer), Nobuhiko Takada (actor), Takehiko Hata (writer),
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Here's my foreign film Friday review of Sion Sono's "Cold Fish," starring Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa, and Megumi Kagurazaka.
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An exciting Japanese high-tension thriller, chosen for his year's CPH PIX festival in Copenhagen. 'Cold Fish' is the long-awaited serial murder drama by this Japanese original about two tropical fish dealers. Shamoto runs a small, somewhat shabby shop together with his wife and a stepdaughter who hates him. He is a walking self-excuse, and even his wife rejects each of his pathetic approaches. But a fateful coincidence causes him to meet the rich and successful fish dealer Murata. He is a manic psychopath and a tempting devil, with a fantastic ability to coax people into depravity. He hires Shamoto and trains him in the noble art of murdering people and getting rid of their bodies. But everything comes at a price, and soon Shamoto has to ask himself if he is the hammer or the nail. 'Cold F...