Cold Fish is a lurid Japanese exploitation gore-fest, allegedly based on real-life events, about a meek fish-store owner called Shamoto (Mitsuru Kukikoshi) who, after a chance encounter with an eccentric Ferrari-driving serial killer called Murata (Japanese comedian Denden), is slowly turned on to the pleasures of murder, mutilation and sexual assault. It’s crudely played and achingly overlong, but if you’re someone who likes watching movies in which women find it dead sexy to get repeatedly stabbed, punched and raped, then Cold Fish should do the trick nicely.
(18, 144mins)