Cold Fish

Name: Cold Fish
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: August 5, 2011
Duration: 144 min
Rating: 66

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Bloody Disgusting | Release Date: August 5, 2011 | R

Summary: In 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 himIn 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 their grisly rituals. Inspired by true events, Cold Fish is a twisted, brutal, blood-soaked drama that reveals the underlying insanity of an ordinary man pushed well beyond the brink. (Bloody Disgusting Selects)… Expand

Director: Shion Sono

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 144 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

Aug 4, 2011

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. Read full review

Mark Olsen

Aug 2, 2011

Cold Fish is wild, head-turning, stomach-churning stuff, and it makes a bracing addition to the overstuffed canon of serial-killer cinema. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Aug 1, 2011

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. Read full review

Daniel Gumble

Sep 22, 2014

Described as a darkly comic horror movie, Cold Fish manages to defy the trade descriptions act on both fronts. Read full review

Jaime N. Christley

Aug 1, 2011

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." Read full review

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JLuis_001

Jul 4, 2021

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,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.… Expand

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