2009 · music · drama · comedy
Fish Story
Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura1h 52m2009
A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" that is foretold to save the world. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together.
Our read: Fish Story (2009) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal music · drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle music / drama, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- surreal
- redemptive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
Watching Fish Story tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Fish Story feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want interconnected Japanese stories across decades linked by one punk song that might save the world.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike subtitled time-jumping narratives or music-as-miracle premises.
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