a5c7b9f00b In the year 2012 a comet approaches earth, threatening to end civilization when it impacts. On the streets of Japan, a single music store remains open, its proprietor insisting to his customers that the world is not coming to an end. He plays a forgotten song recorded by an obscure band 37 years ago, and insists that somehow, this song will save the world. A series of short stories spans the years from the recording of the song in 1975 to the modern day, and shows how–in roundabout fashion–the man in the music store is absolutely right. In 1975, an unpopular punk band releases Fish Story. In 1982, a young man saves a young woman from a strange man. He listened to Fish Story before he saves. In 2009, a high school girl and chef meet on a ship. The ship is seajacked. In 2012, the limit of earth is 5 hours because of a comet. At a music shop, 2 men listen to Fish Story.<br/><br/>I am a fan of the original author of this film. I like coincidence which he writes. I had read the original book once before I watched the film. The story crosses several date. Therefore film is easier to understand than book. I was caught up in the scene which the story was related to the end. I could clear my head. The song, " if my loneliness is a fishÂ…", is not far from my head. I think that the author is good at writing daily lives. I recommend everyone to watch the other films of the writer. The fish story is indeed a punk rock song cribbed from a book by an incompetent translator who did not appreciate the significance of the English term, "Fish story." It is also a collection of seemingly diverse people loosely related to the punk rockers who cut the record. It is not at all clear what most of these people have to do with one another. All, however, is clarified in the end.<br/><br/>I don't know that I have ever seen a movie structured in quite this way in which the actual relationships among the characters is all sorted out in a sort of coda. There is a comet that seems about to destroy the planet until it is blown up by an Indian space crew with one Japanese member, who is, of course, related to all the punk rockers in an unlikely way.<br/><br/>The Japanese have made other films based on the "rock and roll song that saves the world," motif. I can't think of a single on from America but there must be one somewhere. The other great example that comes to mind is The 20th Century Boys III in which the hero gets to sing his song and there is a truly touching scene in which he is reunited with his niece whom he raised.<br/><br/>There is little or nothing so touching here and there is one loose end in which the first character on the screen, a man in an electric wheel chair wanders into a record store, open for no logical reason on the day that the comet strikes, but he is simply shuffled aside at the end and really has only the role of a sort of chorus.
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