Cold Fish is in Selected Cinemas From the 8th of April
Leading Asian film distributor, Third Window Films, will release Cold Fish in selected cinemas on the 8th of April. Here’s the trailer:
Synopsis
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. His second wife, Taeko, does not get along with his daughter, Mitsuko, and this worries him. One day Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store. There they meet a friendly man named Murata, who helps to settle things between Mitsuko and the store manager. Since Murata also runs a tropical fish shop, Shamoto establishes a bond with him and they become friends; Mitsuko even begins working for Murata and living at his house. What Shamoto doesn’t know, however, is that Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face. He sells cheap fish to his customers for high prices with his artful lies. If anyone detects his fraud or refuses to go along with his money-making schemes, they’re murdered and their bodies disposed of by Murata and his wife in grisly ways. Shamoto is suddenly taken in by Murata’s tactics, and by the time he realizes that Murata is insane, and a serial killer who has made over fifty people disappear, he is powerless to do anything about it. But now Mitsuko is a hostage at Murata’s home, and Shamoto himself has become the killer’s unwilling accomplice. Cruel murders gradually cripple his mind and finally the ordinary man being driven to the edge of the abyss
Based somewhat on a true story (read Jake Adelstein’s Tokyo Vice for insight into that particular case) Cold Fish has been described as an outrageous thriller and blood-bath but this comes as no surprise to anyone familiar with the director, Sion Sono, who has made some the most interesting and outrageous work to come out of Japan in recent years including Love Exposure and Suicide Circle. It seems like Cold Fish will continue this tradition as it looks to be another cult classic according to a stream of positive reviews.
The film has been given an 18 certificate and will be released in cinemas this Friday. Click here for a full list of UK cinemas the film will screen at. A DVD/Blu-Ray release us expected on the 27th of June.
