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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Salient Media
  • 2 h 26 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Salient Media
  • 2 h 26 m

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 hi...

Directed By: Sion Sono

Written By: Yoshiki Takahashi, Sion Sono

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Salient Media
  • 2 h 26 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • Salient Media
  • 2 h 26 m

Cold Fish

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
66
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
7.3
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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 hi...

Directed By: Sion Sono

Written By: Yoshiki Takahashi, Sion Sono

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
66
60% Positive
3 Reviews
20% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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60% Positive
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20% Mixed
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20% Negative
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90
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.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
80
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.
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70
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.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 22, 2014
Described as a darkly comic horror movie, Cold Fish manages to defy the trade descriptions act on both fronts.
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0
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."
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Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
7.3
67% Positive
10 Ratings
33% Mixed
5 Ratings
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 15 User Ratings
7.3
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Production Company Toho, Nikkatsu, Stairway
Release Date Aug 5, 2011
Duration 2 h 26 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline How far will you be pushed?
Website http://www.coldfish.jp/
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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

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