Coming from one of the world's largest consumers of Ikizukuri sashimi marine products, South Korea. This film is intensely raw! Written and directed by Lee Dae Hee. The animated movie released by E-DEHI studios tells the story of a fish known as Padak (Voiced by Hyeon-ji Kim) desperately trying to return to the ocean by escaping the captivity of a seafood restaurant before she finds herself on the chopping block. Without spoiling this survival fish tale too much, while parts of the plot might sound reminiscent of Pixar's 2003 film 'Finding Nemo'; it's far from being a kid's movie with the large amount of fish gore and violence throughout the 1 hour and 18 minutes runtime. Lots of visual shock value scenes of marine life slowly being eaten alive after being decapitation slice and dice through fish lens pov. None of it was done in a comedic effect like 2016's film 'Sausage Party' with a similar premise. It was done in a way that would make anybody want to join PETA or go vegan. Along with eating scenes, the way the human pack marine life into cram tanks for transfer reminds me so much of the train carts of the Holocaust. The dark grey cell shading animation really does work for these types of visuals. This is followed up with a trippy psychological series of nightmarish song montages that further drill into the audience's brain how horrifying the eating situation really is. While jarring; the surrealism visuals are beautifully done with different art styles ranging from tradition 2D hand drawing, water painting to Ukiyo Era artwork. All of them somewhat relating to what is happening at that specific part of the story. For example, the choppy cut out animation in the first song really does captivate the fears of not seeing fully your own demise. This is followed close with a 1982 'Pink Floyd The Wall' sequence echoing ideas of alienation. Then there is the jazzy well sung lyrics of second musical number 'Think about it' is about accepting the nihilism fate of the doom situation while the visuals of joyful Hayao Miyazaki's anime style play in the backdrop. 'Forgive Me' is by far the most powerful with its simplistic relax drawn animation about the twist and turns of faith. While, somewhat over the top preachy and heavy handed with church metaphors. You still really get the idea that as crooked as a hook gloomy cold fish Master (Si Yeong-Joon) might have change for the better after that song even without out of the blue deux ex Machina holy like lance to help him. If not, there's nobody really worth rooting for in the end. After all the bait and switch climax was truly shocking. The posters for these films were very misleading. Added the disrespect to the corpse with the cigarette. You can't help feeling mad. While the ugliness of the human beings both visually and morality was 99 percent intentional. I don't find the movie to be racist or full of ethnocentrism beliefs. Personally, I have no problem with people eating marine life as I do the same, but I do agree with the idea that animals used for consumption should be killed humanely. Nevertheless, I do see the cultural relativism of Ikizukuri style cooking. However, the other South Korean Padak dish made from fried chicken and scallion sounds a little more appealing and delicious than any of the alive dishes here. The meals here are troublesome. To add onto that the realistic fish cannibalism parts can also be hard to swallow. Especially when the protagonist is forced by hunger to eat the smaller clownfish in one of the aquarium tanks even if the creatures kinda deserved it for being semi discriminatory. To be fair, this wasn't the restaurant owner's fault or farm raise producers. Carnivore Fishes like the ones shown in this film do tend to eat anything for protein even other marine life in the wild, both dead and barely alive. Just nothing near the amount of meat that this film is portraying them eating. Those meal sizes are way too large. Despite that I do like how the film is also packed to the gills with references to Plato's allegory of the cave that I found fascinating. Nevertheless, the metaphor of dehumanizing prison rape with the animals trying to caught tail of fresh meats to break in the school of newbies to the pecking order harsh life in the aquarium tank was still quite upsetting. No wonder why the movie bomb at the box office. In the end, since its initial release in South Korea. The film has found it way onto online paid subscription services such as Steam and Amazon Prime under the title 'Swimming to Sea' with English subtitles. As of this writing an English dub version has yet to be released. To be truthful, I hope that day never comes because the Korean voice acting throughout this was amazing. Overall: With the semi good animation, catchy tunes and heartbreaking story. The movie is quite a catch. I can only hope that the flick can gain a cult following in the years to come. It clearly got me hooked, lined and sinker.

From 2012 They release that horror movie at all, the with blue fish don't want to be a good of sushi. I wanted to see this I saw all the reviews on YouTube. And remember, it's has violence, gory, terrifying, and then killing of fish of sushi.

I was very moved by this film and I hope more people will get to see it.