2009 ‘フィッシュストーリー’ Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura
A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, and the song strikes a comet and saves the Earth from total destruction.
Mikako Tabe Gaku Hamada Atsushi Ito Kengo Kora Kiyohiko Shibukawa Toshimitsu Okawa Nao Omori Kenjirou Ishimaru Hidekazu Mashima Noriko Eguchi Takashi Yamanaka Kazuki Namioka Seiko Iwaido Eiko Otani Koichi Ueda Reiko Kusamura Yuji Nakamura Kenichi Takitoh Nobuhiro Yamashita Mirai Moriyama Makoto Ashikawa Kosuke Mukai Tamio Hayashi Maiko Asano
Fisshu sutôrî, 一首Punk歌救地球, フィッシュストーリー：2009, 피쉬 스토리, 鱼的故事
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Fish Story. 2009. Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura.
Yoshihiro Nakamura’s cleverly directed film Fish Story (2009) based on the novel by Kotaro Isaka is an engaging sci-fi, drama told in a non-linear fashion. The story evolves over one hour and fifty three minutes and tells the story of a punk rock band in 1975 who is struggling. However, there one major hit Fish Story will have major ramifications in 2009 as a comet is about to strike the earth. Nakamura took Isaka’s novel and showed how interconnected life and the vibration of music an impact life in the future. At first the tales seem disparate but as they converge it becomes clear this is one large story told from 1975 to…
It might feel weird watching Fish Story for everyone, especially me. I immediately felt this story was being puzzled with a strange and unclear plot. So after I finished this Film, I was shocked, how beautiful this film. And I think again this is normal when you try to watch a Fish Story for the first time, even the point of view of the person/main character is almost non-existent, all of them are main characters.
The characters are wholesome and touching, plus the sound of rock is very insane throughout the film. Fish Story is a wonderful fantasy film that feels weird yet very good.
A small connection of Fish Story from Centuries to years, Years to month, Month to days, Everything vice versa and weaving a beautiful non-linear storyline. Unique connections builds unique and memorable story.
Beautiful Ending!
Fish Story is a great song, literally and figuratively. Been a while since a film grabbed me and held on for a close to two hour snuggle.
Spanning several decades and encompassing stories of impending apocalypse, a band biopic, a coming of age, a hijacking and more, every single storyline comes together in the end so punk can save the world. Damn!
Some stories get much more storytime than others, but each one is entertaining in it's own way, and the titular song, catchy as hell, is played throughout the film.
Music CAN save the world! I'm a believer.
Quirky, charming, moving, fun and filled to the brim with that certain kind of Japanese flavour of energy.
Fish Story introduces the viewer to characters and events from multiple decades, and all of them are seemingly unrelated. The only constant throughout the film is a punk song titled Fish Story. All of the characters are likable, and the events we see in each of the years are interesting enough, but I couldn't help but wonder how everything was going to come together. To my surprise, everything does come together. In fact, the stories are tied together in such a thoughtful and beautiful way that I couldn't help but tear up.
I won't say anything about each of the stories because this film will be way more enjoyable if you go into it knowing as little as possible. However,…
I honestly feel so confused but I feel like I understood the film completely. The scenes that included the band really carried it for me. Even though the ending was so worth it, I feel like they could've just made the film about the band and nothing else. But I definitely did really enjoy this. It really grew on me as I progressed through it and I can imagine it's going to grow on me even more in the next few days.
Fish Story aborda esa maravilla de cómo los eventos en el pasado inevitablemente darán forma a lo que está por venir en el futuro, incluso si no tiene sentido en el presente. Y Nakamura toma esta premisa, y a través de la estructura narrativa permite a la audiencia experimentar precisamente eso. Nos traen de línea de tiempo en línea que, en el punto de presentación, las escenas parecen dispares entre sí y no tienen mucho sentido, pero contienen suficiente en sus segmentos individuales para entretener.
You can tell a lot about a film by the outlets the distributors choose for star ratings on the back of the DVD. You have the typical which imply a mainstream appeal. Then there are interchangeable gossip mags which point towards the "chick flick". Independent outlets you've never heard of before suggest that the distributors had to dig deep to find something positive - so temper expectations for those films. Fish Story is none of these things, Fish Story has a 5-star rating from the Fortean Times. What in the hell does that say about a film? Whatever it says, I fell hard for Yoshihiro Nakamura's uniquely Japanese punk odyssey.
Fish Story is made up of 4 interlinked stories that…
Despite being a fish story, everything that plays out in the film is entirely believable, but it doesn't show the ending of those events, it does ultimately, and satisfyingly show the outcomes of the events in the ending. Fish Story is a wild piece of optimistic tone-shifting cinema, it's importance of music is similar to how Tampopo makes food important, unlike said film however, this film heavily uses the big influence of music, and the unbelievable events that can happen because of it. The film's theme song of the same name done by the fictional proto-punk band Gekirin is incredibly catchy, and manages reminds me of Sonic Youth's songs: Teenage Riot, and Silver Rocket. Gekirin as a fictional band in…
When I first watched this, I had never seen anything like it. After seeing it a few times, it still hits me the same time. I love the acting, it can be a bit ropey and it drags in some areas but I love how it all comes together and the song is great.
Best to go into this movie blind, because the story is quite the ride. It's takes six stories stories spanning 60 years and connects them beautifully. It's funny, charming, inspiring, and authentically quirky.
“The bullet went straight through so it doesn’t count as a wound” might be one of my favourite lines in cinema history now 😅
This was a total blast of a movie! The kind of idiosyncratic fun that I’ve come to find synonymous with independent Japanese cinema. A crazy story, a cast of colourful characters, a reverence for western culture, and some insane violence mixed with saccharine emotional beats! It’s like Sion Sono’s LOVE & PEACE meets Haruki Murakami’s NORWEGIAN WOOD by way of Eiji Uchida’s LOWLIFE LOVE but with Michael Bay’s ARMAGEDDON on in the background whilst Jan de Bont’s SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL sits in the corner and cries. At the same time that doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface!
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