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Cold Fish
MEANRANK
72/100
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Everyone agrees
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 66, highest is AlloCiné on 76.
See the most agreed on films →Shamoto, a mild-mannered owner of a small tropical fish shop, meets Murata, the charismatic and successful proprietor of a much larger fish store. Murata offers Shamoto's troubled daughter a job and takes the family under his wing. However, Shamoto soon discovers that Murata and his wife are actually psychotic serial killers who involve him in their crimes. Shamoto is blackmailed into compliance, forced to participate in their gruesome activities while trying to protect his family.
Details
- Director
- Sion Sono
- Writers
- Sion Sono, Yoshiki Takahashi
- Studio
- Nikkatsu Corporation, Stairway, Sushi Typhoon
- Released
- 29 January 2011
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 146 min
- Rated
- NR
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