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* AbusiveParents / DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler:Nobuyuki in the last act of the story, after he kills Yukio. He knocks out his daughter (twice) and rapes his wife.]]
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* AbusiveParents / DomesticAbuse: AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Nobuyuki in the last act of the story, after he kills Yukio. He knocks out his daughter (twice) and rapes his wife.]]
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler:Nobuyuki’s daughter after his suicide.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Nobuyuki.]]
* EvilMentor: Yukio is this to Nobuyuki, in a way.
* FanDisservice: A lot, especially towards the end.
* FreakOut: Nobuyuki eventually takes this up to eleven, in an extremely disturbing manner.
* EvilMentor: Yukio is this to Nobuyuki, in a way.
* FanDisservice: A lot, especially towards the end.
* FreakOut: Nobuyuki eventually takes this up to eleven, in an extremely disturbing manner.
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* HitMeDammit: A very memorable example of Yukio telling Nobuyuki this.
** Also earlier in the movie, when Taeko demands that Yukio hit her more during their tryst.
* ImprovisedWeapon: A pen.
* JerkAss: Yukio is an extreme example. [[spoiler:Then Nobuyuki after he snaps.]]
* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The finale.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: What Nobuyuki does/lets do with Yukio and Aiko. After that there’s no turning back.]]
* TheQuietOne: Nobuyuki.
* RapeAsBackstory: Yukio.
** Also earlier in the movie, when Taeko demands that Yukio hit her more during their tryst.
* ImprovisedWeapon: A pen.
* JerkAss: Yukio is an extreme example. [[spoiler:Then Nobuyuki after he snaps.]]
* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The finale.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: What Nobuyuki does/lets do with Yukio and Aiko. After that there’s no turning back.]]
* TheQuietOne: Nobuyuki.
* RapeAsBackstory: Yukio.
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* HitMeDammit: A very memorable example of Yukio telling Nobuyuki this.
**Also earlier in the movie, when Taeko demands that Yukio hit her more during their tryst.
* %%** A very memorable example of Yukio telling Nobuyuki this.
%%* ImprovisedWeapon: A pen.
* %%* JerkAss: Yukio is an extreme example. [[spoiler:Then Nobuyuki after he snaps.]]
* %%* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The finale.
* %%* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: What Nobuyuki does/lets do with Yukio and Aiko. After that there’s no turning back.]]
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* SanitySlippage
* SerialKiller: Yukio is one of the Power/Control type.
* SerialKiller: Yukio is one of the Power/Control type.
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* OverprotectiveDad: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki beats up the boyfriend of his daughter. Naturally, this only happens after his aforementioned freak out.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Most probably one of the most depressing and nerve-racking examples there is.
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* FreakOut: Nobuyuki eventually takes this UpToEleven, in an extremely disturbing manner.
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* FreakOut: Nobuyuki eventually takes this UpToEleven, up to eleven, in an extremely disturbing manner.
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* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: This one is hard to bare even for Sono’s standards, easily reaching level 9.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Even though the movie itself states that the story it tells is true in the opening scene, the actual correspondence with true events is very thin.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Even though the movie itself states that the story it tells is true in the opening scene, the actual correspondence with true events is very thin.thin.
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* NotSoDifferent: Yukio and Nobuyuki.
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio, who also happens to be a fishmonger, bails him out. Yukio suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic SerialKiller who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon Nobuyuki is blackmailed into assisting Yukio in what he calls making his victims "[[DisposingOfABody disappear]]". This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, Creator/SionSono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio, who also happens to be a fishmonger, bails him out. Yukio suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic SerialKiller who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon Nobuyuki is blackmailed into assisting Yukio in what he calls making his victims "[[DisposingOfABody disappear]]". This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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* StrikeMeDownWithAllYourHatred: Yukio provokes Nobuyuki to strike him down. Noboyuki doesn’t seem to stand a chance against him though. [[spoiler: Until he has the FreakOut and the tables turn.]]
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* StrikeMeDownWithAllYourHatred: StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: Yukio provokes Nobuyuki to strike him down. Noboyuki doesn’t seem to stand a chance against him though. [[spoiler: Until he has the FreakOut and the tables turn.]]
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki in the last act of the story, after he kills Yukio.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: A disturbing example. [[spoiler: It’s especially disturbing because of Yukio‘s reaction to the unexpected brutality of Nobuyuki - he seems to have a throwback to when his father raped him as a child.]]
* AllWomenAreLustful: Yukio’s wife is a very straight example of a lustful woman, but even Nobuyuki’s wife falls into this trope. The sex scene with Yukio showing this is particularly embarrassing to watch and seems very OutOfCharacter.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki’s daughter after his suicide.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: A disturbing example. [[spoiler: It’s especially disturbing because of Yukio‘s reaction to the unexpected brutality of Nobuyuki - he seems to have a throwback to when his father raped him as a child.]]
* AllWomenAreLustful: Yukio’s wife is a very straight example of a lustful woman, but even Nobuyuki’s wife falls into this trope. The sex scene with Yukio showing this is particularly embarrassing to watch and seems very OutOfCharacter.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki’s daughter after his suicide.]]
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki AbusiveParents / DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler:Nobuyuki in the last act of the story, after he kills Yukio.Yukio. He knocks out his daughter (twice) and rapes his wife.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: A disturbing example.[[spoiler: It’s [[spoiler:It’s especially disturbing because of Yukio‘s reaction to the unexpected brutality of Nobuyuki - he seems to have a throwback flashback to when his father raped him as a child.]]
* AllWomenAreLustful: Yukio’s wife is a very straight example of a lustful woman, but even Nobuyuki’s wife falls into this trope. The sex scene with Yukio showing this is particularly embarrassing to watch and seems veryOutOfCharacter.
OutOfCharacter compared to the rest of the film.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing:[[spoiler: Nobuyuki’s [[spoiler:Nobuyuki’s daughter after his suicide.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: A disturbing example.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Yukio’s wife is a very straight example of a lustful woman, but even Nobuyuki’s wife falls into this trope. The sex scene with Yukio showing this is particularly embarrassing to watch and seems very
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* CallBack: The very last thing you see before the credits is [[spoiler: a picture of planet Earth]]. This is a call back to an earlier dialogue between Yukio and Nobuyuki: [[spoiler: Yukio makes fun of Nobuyuki being fascinated with astronomy because for him, planet Earth is not a beautiful blue planet but [[StrawNihilist just a cold rock in space]]. With this last picture, the movie raises the question to the viewer if he, after all the terrible things that happened throughout the movie, is still able to see Earth as a beautiful planet.]]
* TheClimax: [[spoiler: The fairly long scene that results in Nobuyuki stabbing Yukio down.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Yukio makes Nobuyuki seem like this because of his fascination for astronomy.
* TheClimax: [[spoiler: The fairly long scene that results in Nobuyuki stabbing Yukio down.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Yukio makes Nobuyuki seem like this because of his fascination for astronomy.
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* CallBack: The very last thing you see before the credits is [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:a picture of planet Earth]]. This is a call back to an earlier dialogue between Yukio and Nobuyuki: [[spoiler: Yukio makes fun of Nobuyuki being fascinated with astronomy because for him, planet Earth is not a beautiful blue planet but [[StrawNihilist just a cold rock in space]]. With this last picture, the movie raises the question to the viewer if he, Nobuyuki, after all the terrible things that happened throughout the movie, is still able to see Earth as a beautiful planet.]]
* TheClimax:[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The fairly long scene that results in Nobuyuki stabbing Yukio down.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Homicidal tendencies aside, Yukiomakes Nobuyuki seem like this because of has a clownish facade and likes to spontaneously break out dancing to motivate his fascination for astronomy.friends and workers.
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* DownerEndingDownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sure the Muratas are dead, but Nobuyuki turns into a violent beast who ultimately kills himself, and his daughter doesn't mourn him when he dies.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Nobuyuki.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Nobuyuki.]]
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* FreudianExcuse: Yukio was abused by his father as a child.
* GenreShift: The story begins as a harmless family drama, even though some conflicts are present even then (like the daughter stealing). The first scene to imply where the story is going is the grotesque sex scene with Nobuyuki’s wife cheating on him with Yukio. Once the first murder occures, the movie has turned to a psycho thriller and there is no turning back, diving deep into {{Gorn}} territory.
* GenreShift: The story begins as a harmless family drama, even though some conflicts are present even then (like the daughter stealing). The first scene to imply where the story is going is the grotesque sex scene with Nobuyuki’s wife cheating on him with Yukio. Once the first murder occures, the movie has turned to a psycho thriller and there is no turning back, diving deep into {{Gorn}} territory.
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* FreudianExcuse: Yukio was sexually abused by his father as a child.
* GenreShift: The story begins as a harmless family drama, even though some conflicts are present even then (like the daughter stealing). The first scene to imply where the story is going is the grotesque sex scenewith Nobuyuki’s wife cheating on him with Yukio. between Yukio and Nobuyuki's wife. Once the first murder occures, occurs, the movie has turned to a psycho thriller and there is no turning back, diving deep into {{Gorn}} territory.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: UpToEleven.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: UpToEleven.[[spoiler:Nobuyuki's stresses, exacerbated by the Muratas, cause him to snap and turn into an even ''nastier'' psycho than Yukio.]]
** Also earlier in the movie, when Taeko demands that Yukio hit her more during their tryst.
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* JerkAss: Yukio is an extreme example.
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* JerkAss: Yukio is an extreme example. [[spoiler:Then Nobuyuki after he snaps.]]
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: What Nobuyuki does/lets do with Yukio. After that there’s no turning back.]]
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: What Nobuyuki does/lets do with Yukio.Yukio and Aiko. After that there’s no turning back.]]
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio who also happens to be a fishmonger bails him out. He suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic SerialKiller who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon he is blackmailed by the life of his daughter to assist him in what he calls making his victims "[[DisposingOfABody disappear]]". This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio Yukio, who also happens to be a fishmonger fishmonger, bails him out. He Yukio suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic SerialKiller who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon he Nobuyuki is blackmailed by the life of his daughter to assist him into assisting Yukio in what he calls making his victims "[[DisposingOfABody disappear]]". This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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* GenreShift: The story begins as a harmless family drama, even though some conflicts are present even then (like the daughter stealing). The first scene to imply where the story is going is the grotesque sex scene with Nobuyuki’s wife cheating on him with Yukio. Once the first murder occures, the movie has turned to a psycho thriller and there is no turning back, diving deep into Gorn territory.
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* GenreShift: The story begins as a harmless family drama, even though some conflicts are present even then (like the daughter stealing). The first scene to imply where the story is going is the grotesque sex scene with Nobuyuki’s wife cheating on him with Yukio. Once the first murder occures, the movie has turned to a psycho thriller and there is no turning back, diving deep into Gorn {{Gorn}} territory.
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio who also happens to be a fishmonger bails him out. He suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic serial killer who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon he is blackmailed by the life of his daughter to assist him in what he calls making his victims "disappear". This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio who also happens to be a fishmonger bails him out. He suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic serial killer SerialKiller who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon he is blackmailed by the life of his daughter to assist him in what he calls making his victims "disappear"."[[DisposingOfABody disappear]]". This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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* CompleteMonster: Yukio turns out to be one.
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* TheClimax: [[The fairy long scene that results in Nobuyuki stabbing Yukio down.]]
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* TheClimax: [[The fairy [[spoiler: The fairly long scene that results in Nobuyuki stabbing Yukio down.]]
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** [[spoiler: A very, very rare example of a man forcing another man to have sex with a woman (the wife of the first man). This is the key scene of the movie, making Nobuyuki FreakOut.]]
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** [[spoiler: A very, very rare example of a man forcing another man to have sex with a woman (the wife of the first man). This is the [[TheClimax key scene scene]] of the movie, making Nobuyuki FreakOut.]]
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* EvilMentor: Yukio is this to Nobuyuki, in a way.
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because of his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio who also happens to be a fishmonger bails him out. He suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic serial killer who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon he is blackmailed by the life of his daughter to assist him in what he calls making his victims "disappear". This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Even though the movie itself states that the story it tells is true in the opening scene, the actual correspondence with true events is very thin.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The last half an hour as a whole is an extremely depressing example.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The last half an hour as a whole is an extremely depressing example.]]
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Even though the movie itself states that the story it tells is true in the opening scene, the actual correspondence with true events is very thin.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The last half an hour as a whole is an extremely depressing example.]]thin.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The last half an hour as a whole is an extremely depressing example.]]
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* CallBack: [[spoiler: The very last thing you see before the credits is a picture of planet Earth. This is a call back to an earlier dialogue between Yukio and Nobuyuki; Yukio makes fun of Nobuyuki being fascinated with astronomy because for him, planet Earth is not a beautiful blue planet but [[StrawNihilist just a cold rock in space]]. With this last picture, the movie raises the question to the viewer if he, after all the terrible things that happened throughout the movie, is still able to see Earth as a beautiful planet.]]
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* CallBack: [[spoiler: The very last thing you see before the credits is [[spoiler: a picture of planet Earth. Earth]]. This is a call back to an earlier dialogue between Yukio and Nobuyuki; Nobuyuki: [[spoiler: Yukio makes fun of Nobuyuki being fascinated with astronomy because for him, planet Earth is not a beautiful blue planet but [[StrawNihilist just a cold rock in space]]. With this last picture, the movie raises the question to the viewer if he, after all the terrible things that happened throughout the movie, is still able to see Earth as a beautiful planet.]]
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* OverprotectiveDad: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki beats up the boyfriend of her daughter. Naturally, this only happens after his aforementioned freak out.]]
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* OverprotectiveDad: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki beats up the boyfriend of her his daughter. Naturally, this only happens after his aforementioned freak out.]]
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[TheQuietOne quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because of his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio who also happens to be a fishmonger bails him out. He suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic serial killer who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon he is blackmailed by the life of his daughter to assist him in what he calls making his victims „disappear“."disappear". This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[QuietGuy quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because of his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio who also happens to be a fishmonger bails him out. He suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic serial killer who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon he is blackmailed by the life of his daughter to assist him in what he calls making his victims „disappear“. This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[QuietGuy [[TheQuietOne quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because of his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio who also happens to be a fishmonger bails him out. He suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic serial killer who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon he is blackmailed by the life of his daughter to assist him in what he calls making his victims „disappear“. This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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* AlasPoorVillain: A disturbing example. [[spoiler: It’s especially disturbing because of Yukio‘s reaction to the unexpected brutality of * Nobuyuki; he seems to have a throwback to when his father raped him as a child.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: A disturbing example. [[spoiler: It’s especially disturbing because of Yukio‘s reaction to the unexpected brutality of * Nobuyuki; Nobuyuki - he seems to have a throwback to when his father raped him as a child.]]
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[QuietGuy quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because of his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio who also happens to be a fishmonger bails him out. He suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic serial killer that who has murdered well over 50 people. Soon he is blackmailed by the life of his daughter to assist him in what he calls making his victims „disappear“. This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
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A 2010 film written and directed by Sion Sono, ''Cold Fish'' tells the story of a [[QuietGuy quiet]] fishmonger named Nobuyuki who once again gets into trouble because of his daughter gets caught stealing in a shop. The cheerful and charismatic Yukio who also happens to be a fishmonger bails him out. He suggests that Nobuyuki’s daughter may work at his shop (which is significantly larger than Nobuyuki’s) and that he and Nobuyuki can work together as business partners on top of that. Nobuyuki agrees, not yet knowing that the man he made a deal with is actually a psychopathic serial killer that has murdered well over 50 people. Soon he is blackmailed by the life of his daughter to assist him in what he calls making his victims „disappear“. This is the beginning of a nightmare of {{Gorn}} and humiliation.
!!''Cold Fish'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki in the last act of the story, after he kills Yukio.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: A disturbing example. [[spoiler: It’s especially disturbing because of Yukio‘s reaction to the unexpected brutality of * Nobuyuki; he seems to have a throwback to when his father raped him as a child.]]
* AllWomenAreLustful: Yukio’s wife is a very straight example of a lustful woman, but even Nobuyuki’s wife falls into this trope. The sex scene with Yukio showing this is particularly embarrassing to watch and seems very OutOfCharacter.
*AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki’s daughter after his suicide.]]
*BeneathTheMask: Yukio may seem friendly at first with his extroverted behaviour. It takes some time until it gets clear that he is a psychopath and SerialKiller.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Nobuyuki seems like he couldn’t even harm a fly, but the appearance is disturbingly deceiving.
* BreakTheCutie: Most probably one of the most depressing and nerve-racking examples there is.
* CallBack: [[spoiler: The very last thing you see before the credits is a picture of planet Earth. This is a call back to an earlier dialogue between Yukio and Nobuyuki; Yukio makes fun of Nobuyuki being fascinated with astronomy because for him, planet Earth is not a beautiful blue planet but [[StrawNihilist just a cold rock in space]]. With this last picture, the movie raises the question to the viewer if he, after all the terrible things that happened throughout the movie, is still able to see Earth as a beautiful planet.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Yukio makes Nobuyuki seem like this because of his fascination for astronomy.
* CrapsackWorld: More or less the point of the whole thing; Yukio wants to make Nobuyuki (a man who loves the world) see the world as a crapsack world. [[spoiler: He succeeds, with Nobuyuki committing suicide at the end of the movie.]]
* DownerEnding
* FanDisservice: A lot, especially towards the end.
* FreakOut: Nobuyuki eventually takes this UpToEleven, in an extremely disturbing manner.
* FreudianExcuse: Yukio was abused by his father as a child.
* GenreShift: The story begins as a harmless family drama, even though some conflicts are present even then (like the daughter stealing). The first scene to imply where the story is going is the grotesque sex scene with Nobuyuki’s wife cheating on him with Yukio. Once the first murder occures, the movie has turned to a psycho thriller and there is no turning back, diving deep into Gorn territory.
* {{Gorn}}: Scenes of this getting more and more frequent as the plot evolves.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: UpToEleven.
* HitMeDammit: A very memorable example of Yukio telling Nobuyuki this.
* ImprovisedWeapon: A pen.
* JerkAss: Yukio is an extreme example.
* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: This one is hard to bare even for Sono’s standards, easily reaching level 9.
* NotSoDifferent: Yukio and Nobuyuki.
* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The finale.
* OverprotectiveDad: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki beats up the boyfriend of her daughter. Naturally, this only happens after his aforementioned freak out.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: What Nobuyuki does/lets do with Yukio. After that there’s no turning back.]]
* TheQuietOne: Nobuyuki.
* RapeAsBackstory: Yukio.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Two cases of this.
** [[spoiler: A very, very rare example of a man forcing another man to have sex with a woman (the wife of the first man). This is the key scene of the movie, making Nobuyuki FreakOut.]]
** [[spoiler: After his FreakOut, Nobuyuki rapes his wife in another very distubing scene.]]
* SanitySlippage
* SerialKiller: Yukio is one of the Power/Control type.
* StrikeMeDownWithAllYourHatred: Yukio provokes Nobuyuki to strike him down. Noboyuki doesn’t seem to stand a chance against him though. [[spoiler: Until he has the FreakOut and the tables turn.]]
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Even though the movie itself states that the story it tells is true in the opening scene, the actual correspondence with true events is very thin.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The last half an hour as a whole is an extremely depressing example.]]
!!''Cold Fish'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki in the last act of the story, after he kills Yukio.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: A disturbing example. [[spoiler: It’s especially disturbing because of Yukio‘s reaction to the unexpected brutality of * Nobuyuki; he seems to have a throwback to when his father raped him as a child.]]
* AllWomenAreLustful: Yukio’s wife is a very straight example of a lustful woman, but even Nobuyuki’s wife falls into this trope. The sex scene with Yukio showing this is particularly embarrassing to watch and seems very OutOfCharacter.
*AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki’s daughter after his suicide.]]
*BeneathTheMask: Yukio may seem friendly at first with his extroverted behaviour. It takes some time until it gets clear that he is a psychopath and SerialKiller.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Nobuyuki seems like he couldn’t even harm a fly, but the appearance is disturbingly deceiving.
* BreakTheCutie: Most probably one of the most depressing and nerve-racking examples there is.
* CallBack: [[spoiler: The very last thing you see before the credits is a picture of planet Earth. This is a call back to an earlier dialogue between Yukio and Nobuyuki; Yukio makes fun of Nobuyuki being fascinated with astronomy because for him, planet Earth is not a beautiful blue planet but [[StrawNihilist just a cold rock in space]]. With this last picture, the movie raises the question to the viewer if he, after all the terrible things that happened throughout the movie, is still able to see Earth as a beautiful planet.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Yukio makes Nobuyuki seem like this because of his fascination for astronomy.
* CrapsackWorld: More or less the point of the whole thing; Yukio wants to make Nobuyuki (a man who loves the world) see the world as a crapsack world. [[spoiler: He succeeds, with Nobuyuki committing suicide at the end of the movie.]]
* DownerEnding
* FanDisservice: A lot, especially towards the end.
* FreakOut: Nobuyuki eventually takes this UpToEleven, in an extremely disturbing manner.
* FreudianExcuse: Yukio was abused by his father as a child.
* GenreShift: The story begins as a harmless family drama, even though some conflicts are present even then (like the daughter stealing). The first scene to imply where the story is going is the grotesque sex scene with Nobuyuki’s wife cheating on him with Yukio. Once the first murder occures, the movie has turned to a psycho thriller and there is no turning back, diving deep into Gorn territory.
* {{Gorn}}: Scenes of this getting more and more frequent as the plot evolves.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: UpToEleven.
* HitMeDammit: A very memorable example of Yukio telling Nobuyuki this.
* ImprovisedWeapon: A pen.
* JerkAss: Yukio is an extreme example.
* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: This one is hard to bare even for Sono’s standards, easily reaching level 9.
* NotSoDifferent: Yukio and Nobuyuki.
* OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank: The finale.
* OverprotectiveDad: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki beats up the boyfriend of her daughter. Naturally, this only happens after his aforementioned freak out.]]
* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: What Nobuyuki does/lets do with Yukio. After that there’s no turning back.]]
* TheQuietOne: Nobuyuki.
* RapeAsBackstory: Yukio.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Two cases of this.
** [[spoiler: A very, very rare example of a man forcing another man to have sex with a woman (the wife of the first man). This is the key scene of the movie, making Nobuyuki FreakOut.]]
** [[spoiler: After his FreakOut, Nobuyuki rapes his wife in another very distubing scene.]]
* SanitySlippage
* SerialKiller: Yukio is one of the Power/Control type.
* StrikeMeDownWithAllYourHatred: Yukio provokes Nobuyuki to strike him down. Noboyuki doesn’t seem to stand a chance against him though. [[spoiler: Until he has the FreakOut and the tables turn.]]
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Even though the movie itself states that the story it tells is true in the opening scene, the actual correspondence with true events is very thin.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: The last half an hour as a whole is an extremely depressing example.]]