Cold Fish

Cold Fish
Cold Fish
Directed by Sion Sono
Produced by Yoshinori Chiba
Toshiki Kiimura
Written by Sion Sono
Yoshiki Takahashi
Starring Mitsuru Fukikoshi
Denden
Asuka Kurosawa
Music by Tomohide Harada
Cinematography Shinya Kimura
Editing by Junichi Ito
Studio Nikkatsu
Release date(s) September 7, 2010 (2010-09-07) (Venice Film Festival)
January 29, 2011 (2011-01-29) (Japan)
Running time 145 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

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 who's 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.[1]

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.

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Production

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.[2] 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 involving a family of three that becomes entangled in a string of ongoing murders perpetrated by a tropical fish salesman in Shizuoka Prefecture.[3] Sono also wanted to to "depict a sense of total hopelessness" which he felt is "lacking in Japanese films."[3]

Release

Cold Fish premiered at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 7, 2010.[2] It was also shown at film festivals in Pusan and at the Toronto International Film Festival where it received it's North American premiere.[4][5] Cold Fish won the best screenplay award in the Fantastic Features section at Fantastic Fest 2010.[4] It was released in Japan on January 29, 2011.[2]

Reception

Film Business Asia gave Cold Fish a 8 out of 10 rating praising the actor Denden who without his "tour-de-force performance...Cold Fish may never have worked."[2] The review went on to state that "Though there's considerable gore on display, it's largely cartoonish. Cold Fish is not so much a blood-and-guts horror movie, more a danse macabre about social breakdown."[2]

In the United Kingdom, Total Film gave the film a three out of five rating, suggesting that plot twists and black comedy offered welcome reprieve from the "largely hysterical acting and rivers of viscera."[6] The Guardian found the film to be "fairly ordinary" in comparison to Sono's other works and felt that the film was too long.[7] Radio Times gave the film three out of five stars praising the acting from Denden, Fukikoshi and Kurosawa and Shinya Kimura's photography and Takashi Matsuzuka's production design which made up for "some overindulgent directorial moments".[8]

Notes

  1. ^ The Saitama Dog Lovers Serial Killings based movie: Cold Fish (冷たい熱帯魚）debuts on DVD.
  2. ^ a b c d e Elley, Derek (September 10, 2010). "Cold Fish (冷たい熱帯魚)". Film Business Asia. http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/cold-fish. Retrieved July 11, 2011. 
  3. ^ a b CJ (November 28, 2010). "Sion Sono’s ‘Cold Fish’ nets Japan premiere at Tokyo Filmex". The Tokyo Reporter. http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2010/11/28/sion-sonos-cold-fish-nets-japan-premiere-at-tokyo-filmex/. Retrieved July 11, 2011. 
  4. ^ a b Landreth, Jonathan (November 8, 2010). "Notorious Japanese Director Sion Sono Unveils Next Project". Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/notorious-japanese-director-sion-sono-42963. Retrieved July 11, 2011. 
  5. ^ Deming, Mark. "Cold Fish". Allrovi. http://www.allrovi.com/movies/movie/cold-fish-v525140. Retrieved July 11, 2011. 
  6. ^ Harley, Kevin (April 13, 2011). "Cold Fish". Total Film. http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/cold-fish?ns_campaign=reviews&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=totalfilm&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0. Retrieved July 11, 2011. 
  7. ^ French, Philip (April 10, 2011). "Cold Fish – review". http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/apr/10/cold-fish-review-shion-sono?INTCMP=SRCH. Retrieved July 11, 2011. 
  8. ^ Parkinson, David. "Cold Fish". Radio Times. http://www.radiotimes.com/servlet_film/com.icl.beeb.rtfilms.client.simpleSearchServlet?searchTypeSelect=5&frn=50703. Retrieved July 11, 2011. 

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Suicide Club (2002) · Hazard (2005) · Strange Circus (2005) · Noriko's Dinner Table (2006) · Exte (2007) · Love Exposure (2008) · Lord of Chaos (2010) · Cold Fish (2011) · Himizu (2011) · Guilty of Romance (2011)

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