Cold Fish (2010)

When compared to Love Exposure, Cold Fish feels almost ordinary. Sure, it's a movie about tropical fish salesmen and old man sex and ghastly murders, but it has a reasonably coherent plot and a 2 and 1/2 hour runtime. Sounds like fun for the whole family!

The editing is spectacular, full of rapid back and forth scene changes that feel completely fluid. Shamoto very hard to read, but that makes him fascinating, and his transformation is riveting. However, the violence in the film is brutal, intense, and misogynistic in a way that can be excruciatingly uncomfortable to watch. Sometimes I felt like Sono was more interested in cruelty than his characters, but it's called the Hate trilogy for a reason. Still, the black comedy is well executed, and if I have the stomach for it, I might go back and watch this again.

3 bones covered in soy sauce out of 5.