Cold Fish

Released Aug 5, 2011

2h 24m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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75%

Tomatometer

24 Reviews

75%

Audience Score

1,000+ Ratings

The passive owner of a fish store becomes entangled with a murderous couple and implicated in their gruesome crimes.

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

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.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 4, 2011

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Mark Olsen

Village Voice

Cold Fish is wild, head-turning, stomach-churning stuff, and it makes a bracing addition to the overstuffed canon of serial-killer cinema.

Aug 2, 2011

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Jaime N. Christley

Slant Magazine

Don't let me talk you out of it--after all, I'm no kibbitzer.

Rated: 0/4

Jul 31, 2011

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Justine Smith

Vague Visages

A slow-boil of escalating hatred, the film builds tension on the pulsing contempt growing inside of Syamoto.

Jun 6, 2024

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Ard Vijn

ScreenAnarchy

What could have been one of the best and most disturbing thrillers of the year gets somewhat spoiled by a potentially vile subtext and a very mean-spirited finale where the film totally lost me.

Jan 15, 2020

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

"Cold Fish" is one of Sono's masterpieces, a great combination of Japanese exploitation, outstanding acting and technical and artistic elaborateness.

Dec 1, 2019

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Alex C

Loved this, inspired by true events. This movie is well paced, well acted and overall very well shot. I would recommend to anyone who enjoy long foreign films. The gore is great and violence is well acted.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

12/21/23

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acsdoug D

An original, quirky, wonderfully bizarre film. You'll stick around even if for no other reason to see what happens next.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

05/12/23

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Gian P

It all felt very pointless and redundant at the end. A lot of ways they could have gone with it after the big 'oh snap' moment but it ended up being kind of lame and useless.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/12/23

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Audience Member

It was a fun but unnecessarily long ride

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Audience Member

You know you've got a good movie when it makes two and a half hours feel like 90 minutes.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Audience Member

I just couldn't get into it, dislikeable characters and a serious lacking plot

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Synopsis

The passive owner of a fish store becomes entangled with a murderous couple and implicated in their gruesome crimes.

Director: Sion Sono
Producer: Yoshinori Chiba, Toshiki Kimura
Screenwriter: Sion Sono, Yoshiki Takahashi
Distributor: AMC Entertainment
Production Co: Nikkatsu
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 5, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 20, 2016
Runtime: 2h 24m

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