The life of Shamoto, a mild-mannered, middle-aged tropical fish shop owner is taken over by Murata, a fellow fish seller who initially appears to be jovial, charming and respectable, but soon turns out to be a cold-blooded killer. Loosely based on the real-life exploits of two Tokyo serial killers, a husband and wife duo who operated a pet shop and murdered at least four people, Cold Fish explores what happens when a family finds itself overtaken by an outsider. Will Shamoto extricate himself from Murata’s grip? An unsettling, unpredictable, often grisly thrill-ride that rarely offers respite, legendary cult director Sion Sono has created a film of dramatic mood-swings to match those of its terrifying lead character. Not for the faint-hearted, Cold Fish is as inventive as it is intense.
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Also showing as part of Sion Sono’s Hate Trilogy:
Love Exposure – Sunday 4th February, 2.45pm
Guilty of Romance – Sunday 18th February, 5pm
- DIR. SION SONO
- CAST. MITSURU FUKIKOSHI, DENDEN, ASUKA KUROSAWA
- YEAR. 2010
- COUNTRY. JAPAN
- RUN-TIME. 145 MINS
- RATING. 18
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors 7:00PM
Film 7:30PM
“Blackly funny…. provocative, inventive gore and an enigmatic, oblique approach to meaning… a triumphantly unhinged achievement from an intelligent and profoundly individual filmmaker, who clearly delights in darkness”
“Always entertaining”
“Asia Extreme fans will lap up this blood-soaked Japanese comedy... at its best and beastliest, it recalls the likes of Audition”
“Deliciously warped… Propelled by slaughterhouse levels of gore and wickedly absurdist humour… Sono knows that, in business as in romance, intervention between masochist and sadist is almost always futile”
“Wild, head-turning, stomach-churning stuff… a bracing addition to the overstuffed canon of serial-killer cinema”