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Seen on: 04/11/2010

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Fish Story (2009)

Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sleestakk, noahphex

Overview

A rock band writes a song called “Fish Story” based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, and the song strikes a comet and saves the Earth from total destruction.

Length 112 minutes

Actors

Makoto Ashikawa | Kôichi Ueda | Kenjiro Ishimaru | Nao Ōmori | Kiyohiko Shibukawa | Mai Takahashi | Atsushi Itō | Noriko Eguchi | Mirai Moriyama | Gaku Hamada | Kengo Kora | Tamio Hayashi | Kazuki Namioka | Mikako Tabe | Kenichi Takito | Maiko Asano | Nobuhiro Yamashita | Reiko Kusamura | Toshimitsu Okawa | Kôsuke Mukai | Yûji Nakamura | Takashi Yamanaka | Hidekazu Mashima | Eiko Otani

Viewing Notes

I was completely bummed I missed this at Fantastic Fest 09. It wasn’t from lack of trying either, but just that every showing was always sold out.

And for good reason.

Fish Story is a fantastic piece of film. It has so many elements I love in movies: punk rock, science fiction, pop culture references, clever storytelling and a kickass script.

This is the movie that Southland Tales had aspired to be, IMHO. Some of the same ideas are touched upon, but yet, in Fish Story, the plot makes much more sense and isn’t filled with a series of bizarre moments that never make sense. It’s a far more compelling and fun movie than ST.

This is a movie that I really hope gets a wider release somehow because I know anyone I know who would see it would fall in love with it, just as I did.

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