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Dec 30, 2014Nursebob rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
When Mr. Shamoto, the meek and mousy proprietor of a small tropical fish store, is befriended by the overly exuberant Mr. Murata, a wildly successful businessman also dealing in exotic fish, the stage is set for this year’s most outrageous and bloody mindfuck of a film. Shamoto’s opposite in almost every way, Murata’s explosive bonhomie quickly insinuates him into the timid shopkeeper’s family and before long he’s banging Mrs. Shamoto, brainwashing the couple’s daughter, and introducing the little man to the fine art of graft, murder and dismemberment. As the gruesome body count grows (this film is definitely not for the squeamish) a sea change overcomes Mr. Shamoto resulting in a fiendishly grotesque finale that had the audience squirming. Not just for the gore-hounds however as director Sono Shion combines a wonderfully twisted psychosexual subtext with some unholy religious symbolism. Think of Goodfellas written by Sigmund Freud and directed by Jack the Ripper. Woot! Woot!