Fried Dragon Fish (TV Movie 1993)

Fried Dragon Fish: Directed by Shunji Iwai. With Miyoko Yoshimoto, Tadanobu Asano, Hiroshi Ôguchi, Derrick Holmes. A salesman from Delta Works, a London-based computerized database, offers a one month free trial that seems uninteresting until he mentions that an operator, always selected from a group of young women in their 20’s nick-named “Delta Ladies

“This is one of cult Japanese director Iwai Shunjiu0026#39;s early films.It was made when he was experimenting with form,style and content of his forthcoming films.u0026quot;Fried Dragon Fishu0026quot; a one of those rare combinations seen in films which feature a computer,a fish and a detective.It must be mentioned that famous Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu is one of the biggest reasons for appreciating this film.This is a medium length film heavily based on television film aesthetics.All the colors,sets and decoration appear as if they have been lifted from a television studio.It is still not clear whether u0026quot;Fried Dragon Fishu0026quot; should be termed as a thriller as it lacks credible elements of thriller cinema.What we see in this film is a series of filmed images which are bathed in a meandering narrative.This is one of this filmu0026#39;s most relevant problematic issues.Influence of modern day America can be also be felt in this film as its protagonistsu0026#39; borrow heavily from American ways of life.”