History Film / ColdFish

* 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.]]

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: [[spoiler:Nobuyuki’s daughter after his suicide.]]

* 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.

* 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.

* SanitySlippage
* SerialKiller: Yukio is one of the Power/Control type.

* OverprotectiveDad: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki beats up the boyfriend of his daughter. Naturally, this only happens after his aforementioned freak out.]]

* BreakTheCutie: Most probably one of the most depressing and nerve-racking examples there is.

* FreakOut: Nobuyuki eventually takes this UpToEleven, in an extremely disturbing manner.

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: This one is hard to bare even for Sono’s standards, easily reaching level 9.

* 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.

* NotSoDifferent: Yukio and Nobuyuki.

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.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.

* DownerEnding

* 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.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: UpToEleven.

* JerkAss: Yukio is an extreme example.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: [[spoiler: What Nobuyuki does/lets do with Yukio. After that there’s no turning back.]]

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.

* 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.

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.

* CompleteMonster: Yukio turns out to be one.

* TheClimax: [[The fairy long scene that results in Nobuyuki stabbing Yukio down.]]

** [[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.]]

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.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* OverprotectiveDad: [[spoiler: Nobuyuki beats up the boyfriend of her daughter. Naturally, this only happens after his aforementioned freak out.]]

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.

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.

* 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.]]

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.