As a record store owner keeps his store open on the day of the beginning meteor apocalypse, he plays a long lost record of a punk band, formed years before the Sex Pistols and claims that it will save the world.

This is without a doubt my favourite Japanese film of all time. I still remember the first time I watched it. It began with three guys talking in a record shop, then went off into 4 different stories, spanning different decades. I don't want to spoil the ending, so I won't say too much.

I will however say this. As I watched this I thought it was only an okay film, where the four storys don't seem to interlace. But then when the ending was near, it all connects and the storys make complete sense as one. Left me with the best feeling after watching and now I watch it once or twice every year.

Highly recommended.

This is a fantastic story about a proto-punk rock song that just might save the world from certain destruction. It starts off deceptively small, then weaves through a number of stories that bring people together in delightfully accidental ways leading to a perfectly absurd conclusion.

This is the most Japanese comedy you will ever see in your entire life.

Fisshu sutôrî (2009).
A charming & unusual tale set in pre-Apocalyptic Japan, involving interlocking flashbacks & a forgotten punk song... 8/10.

"They're not The Beatles, we'll look like amateurs."

Right from the start there's something amateur about Fish Story which made me think it was ripe for a remake. Perhaps it's because the film is so ambitious, there's more to be told here than two hours allows. It feels like a cross between Heroes (before it went bad) and Cloud Atlas and deserves to be a cult classic.

Unlike other 'end of the world' stories/movies! And that's what I like about it...

I'm not going to say anything else, because it's better going in knowing as little as possible!

LOVE THIS MOVIE XD

Like a Japanese Cloud Atlas, only on a smaller scale (spanning decades rather than centuries). And, since it is Japanese, it doesn't take itself nearly as seriously as its American counterpart does, for better and for worse. The plot, which revolves around a punk rock song and how it's responsible for saving the world from armageddon, does lend itself better to comedy, but, at the same time, the general sense of levity dilutes the emotional payoff a bit. The ending feels like a triumph for the human race, sure, but not so much for the specific members of the human race that we've been following for two hours. It really needed the epic, three-hour treatment that Cloud Atlas received, which would have obviated the need to sum up the whole plot in a closing montage. Still a lot of fun, though, and the title song is kind of awesome, if you're into punk.

Amusing story, but I found the music annoyingly repetitive.

It's like a good and fun mashup of Cloud Atlas and Melancholia. The story is really cute and clever and the tone is just light enough. I was smiling the whole time.

A bunch of seemingly unrelated stories collate into a wonderful far fetched tale. Everything is interlaced and it all makes sense by the end. You will be left with a smile on your face.

A must watch.

This is the most Japanese comedy you will ever see in your entire life.