Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto soon become friendly. However Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face.
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But thanks to Hollywood which is busy covering up women and being all Taliban-ish we have to go overseas to satisfy our natural inclination to watch beautiful women. This movie has it all: beautiful women, female flesh, murder, sex, deception and the women are over-the-top gorgeous. Hollywood has a lot of catching up to do. Keep watching Ghostbusters 2016 losers or crawl back to the world's only chubby Asian chick in The Last Jedi.
Slow-burner movie following a timid fish shopkeeper getting bullied by an aggressive competitor --- forced to partake in his "disposing bodies" businessMr. Aggression kills people and makes their families disappear if they don't agree to his motives .. He's teamed with an equally insane wife and a corrupt-business investor .. They bully their way into Mr. Timid life , seducing his wife and daughter with their madness and threatening Mr. Timid with annihilation if he squeals to the police .. One day Mr. Timid snaps and becomes Mr. Aggression himself .
Director Shion Sono (known for "Noriko's Dinnertable" and "Suicide Club") has put together yet another odd, bizarre, yet entertaining movie with the filming of "Cold Fish" (aka "Tsumetai nettaigyo").While "Cold Fish" is not suitable to everyone, given its slow pace, contents of the story or just because it is Japanese. However, you should transcend these and sit down to watch "Cold Fish", because you are in for a very different type of movie.The story is about a small time seller of tropical fish named Nobuyuki who is given a chance to have his criminal daughter work at the biggest tropical fish store and he himself will have a chance to become business partners with Murata, the owner of the big store. However with opportunities comes a trade off...The storyline was odd, yes, but it worked out well enough despite the slow pace of the movie. I was thoroughly entertained by the story with its depravities, oddities, bizarreness and bloodiness.What really worked for "Cold Fish" was the all round phenomenal cast. The lead roles played by Misuru Fukikoshi (playing Nobuyuki) and Denden (playing Yukio Murata) were great actors and really carried the movie well. But the two female leads Megumi Kagurazaka (playing Taeko Syamoto) and Asuka Kurasawa (playing Aiko Murata) were phenomenal as well. A shame that the women didn't have more on-screen time though.The effects and gore, yes it has gore too, was actually quite good, despite it not being a focal point for the movie itself.If you enjoy Asian movies then you should most certainly sit down and treat yourself to some "Cold Fish".
'I hope you like cold fish' is probably the sexiest thing I'll ever hear a French girl say.Completely out of context, 'Cold Fish' is the latest work of 'Love Exposure' director, Sion Sono. Being that it is over four hours long – and not even I can be arsed to sit through a film for that long – I have never seen 'Love Exposure', and so this was my first experience of Sono's work.The old 'based on a true story', then grossly exaggerated for cinema premise, we see boring, dull, pet fish shop owner, Shamoto and his family's lives turned upside down when the big and brash, tropical fish shop owner, Murata walks into them.What follows is a pretty standard offering, with violence, blood and sex thrown in for 'shocks', and it's all pretty entertaining, in a popcorn- movie kind of a way. Despite being another long film, it rarely drags, with some nice camera-work to contrast industrial Japan in the shadow of Fuji-san. There are attempts to add the odd psychological element here and there, though these never get too deep, as 'Cold Fish' plods along its dirty, sexy, bloody way. Don't search for any hidden meanings here; there's little fishy about this one.www.politic1983.blogspot.com