Cold Fish (Sion Sono) (2010)

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Cold Fish (Sion Sono) (2010)

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Trailer for Sono's Cold Fish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu_T5UtvQ9w

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Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:24 pm

Strongly positive and mostly positive reviews for Cold Fish:

http://twitchfilm.net/reviews/2010/09/v ... rything%29

http://www.sushi-typhoon.com/news/varie ... -fish.html

EDIT: more reviews:
http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2010/0 ... cold-fish/

Just as a sidenote: the sushi twitter is doing really nice job keeping us updated, and they even link to negative reviews of their films.
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Sushi Typhoon – Part 5: Cold Fish
http://sketchesofcinema.wordpress.com/2 ... cold-fish/

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The Japanese DVD and Blu-Ray release date is August 2, 2011. It will include:
- Audio Commentary by Sion Sono and Yoshiki Takahashi
- Making Of documentary
- Premieres (Tokyo, Venice)
- Talk Event with Takashi Miike, Sion Sono and Mitsuru Fukikoshi
- Video Message from Yukio Murata (Denden's character name)
- Trailers and TV spots
- First press limitation: outer sleeve

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BD Release Date: June 27th 2011

BD Specifications:
1080p High Definition Transfer, DTS-HD 5.1 Sound, Removable English Subtitles

BD Bonus Features:
Exclusive interview with journalist Jake Adelstein on the 'Saitama Dog Lovers Serial Murders' case, 2 Exclusive interviews with 'Cold Fish' scriptwriter Yoshiki Takahashi on the creation of both the film and original artwork, Theatrical trailer, Trailers of other Third Window releases
- http://thirdwindowfilms.com/films/cold-fish


Nice try Third Window, but if you're gonna release it with such terrible cover art and lacking extras (although they have some exclusive stuff), I think I'll go for the Japanese Blu-Ray instead.
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The Japanese BD will cost like 3 times as much :?
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Hung, have you watched the UK Blu-ray of Cold Fish? I haven't seen anyone else mention the same issues I have with the transfer.
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gasteropod wrote:Hung, have you watched the UK Blu-ray of Cold Fish? I haven't seen anyone else mention the same issues I have with the transfer.
No, I don't have it, I'm out of money.

Do you have another player / TV to test it on?
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Could try it on my multiregion one but I'm sure it's the disc. Also, which BD of I Saw the Devil did you end up going for? I gather the UK one is the Korean cut, and the US one is the international cut, and apparently the latter is the director's preferred version so I think I'll probably go for that one when it comes down in price.
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I went for the US BD. But there's a new Korean BD coming soon, with both version.
http://www.asianblurayguide.com/news/54 ... eviltwice/

After watching the film I checked this detailed (and spoiler heavy) comparison...
http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=847718

... and I'm not sure it makes that much difference which version you watch. It seems like the Korean version is almost as violent, with only a couple of shots removed and some scenes slightly shortened. I think the film would still have the exact same impact. Some other changes, such as added and badly placed sex scene in the Korean Cut might make a slightly bigger difference.
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HungFist wrote:Some other changes, such as added and badly placed sex scene in the Korean Cut might make a slightly bigger difference.
Yeah apparently he removed that from the international version because he realised it didn't flow well.
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I just wish directors would decide upon which is their preferred cut BEFORE releasing the damn movie! Instead of the mess we often find ourselfs in now, where you've got a shitload of different cuts, with neither being 'complete'....
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Sometimes they're under a lot of pressure to get a film edited in time for festival submission though.
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ok, so Kim Jee-won's last three films are...

I Saw the Devil: International Cut and Korean Cut
The Good, The Bad, The Weird: International Cut and Korean Cut
A Bittersweet Life: Theatrical Cut and Director's Cut

... or should I say Kim Jee-won's last six films? :D

Seriously, this guy... :mad: :lol:
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Read a review of the brilliant film Cold Fish at Diverse Japan http://diversejapan.wordpress.com/2011/ ... #more-1166

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gas, did you manage to solve the disc issue?

Now that I came to think about it, I came across something maybe a bit similar some years ago. I was watching Tokyo Shock's Zebraman DVD and on my TV there was brightness flickering, about once a second. I tried it on a different TV (with the same dvd-player) and it was fine. But on my (old) TV I could not get rid of the problem...
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I forgot my multi-region BD player is set to region A, so I shan't bother messing around with codes to check Cold Fish on it, I can't see it playing any differently tbh.
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