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."
Cold Fish(冷たい熱帯魚)
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Japan · 2010
2h 26m
Director Sion Sono
Starring Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa, Megumi Kagurazaka
Genre Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
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Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter is caught shoplifting from a grocery, 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 friends, but Murata hides many dark secrets behind his smiling face.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
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.
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.
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