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Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack (2012)
Directed by Takayuki Hirao
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Overview
To celebrate their graduation from university Kaori and her two friends visit Okinawa in southern Japan for a short vacation. At the vacation house, provided by Tadashi’s uncle, a numbing stench awaits the girls, and can be traced to a horrendously deformed, legged fish that Kaori kills. More and more of these creatures appear and portend a horrific change for the animal life in the area. A phone call from Kaori’s fiancé Tadashi in Tokyo quickly shows the scope of this epidemic, when he is also attacked by these mechanized fish. Kaori immediately sets out on an perilous voyage to find out what happened to Tadashi, helped by Shirakawa — a videographer in search of the truth behind all this…
Rated R | Length 70 minutes
Actors
Mirai Kataoka | Takuma Negishi | Ami Taniguchi | Masami Saeki | Hiroshi Okazaki | Hidetaka Abe | Mori Kaneko
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/05/2013 | TV | DVD | Owned | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
Hmm, definitely an interesting and unexpected anime feature. Honestly thought it was a shark attack movie but it’s way beyond that. It’s a Junji Ito adapted manga that really harkens back to the early 90s of weird anime/manga like Doomed Megalopolis and Wicked City.
Not a great movie but bizarre enough to make it enjoyable despite numerous head-scratchers. There really is no clear explanation for the killer fish (what ultimately ignited this mutation) which hurts the movie. Animation is okay. Really plays more like a zombie invasion.
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