Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
3.7 of 5 from 47 ratings
2h 39min
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- Synopsis:
Brimming with a hip sensibility and a touch of ultra-violence, this provocative Japanese film by young director Sion Sono stunned audiences during its initial theatrical run. Teenager Noriko Shimabara (Kazue Fukiishi) escapes her tiny provincial town and moves to the big city to find an Internet cult group called Haikyo.com. There she meets the site s web-master, a young woman named Kumiko (Tsugumi), and loses herself in the cult practices of this strange group, which include a unique approach to prostitution and mass suicide. Back home, Noriko's little sister grows increasingly concerned about her sibling and toys with the idea of coming to the city herself. Told in a fractured style, the film is an extension of Sono's runaway success Suicide Club. Too horrific to be mere drama, and to melodramatic to be horror, 'Noriko's Dinner Table' takes a harsh look at alienated youth in a modern society. - Actors:
- Kazue Fukiishi, Tsugumi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Shirô Namiki, Sanae Miyata, Yôko Mitsuya, Tamae Andô, Naoko Watanabe, Hiroshi Sakuma, Chihiro Abe, Hanako Onuki, Sora Tôma, Kazumasa Taguchi, Takako Kitagawa, Shingo Ishikawa
- Directors:
- Sion Sono
- Writers:
- Sion Sono
- Aka:
- Noriko no shokutaku
- Genres:
- Horror, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
