Noriko's Dinner Table

Corp, who refutes the existence of a "suicide club" and instead expounds on a concept of social roles that forms the basis of his organisation. Tetsuzo attempts to put on a brave face after Yuka's disappearance, but his wife Taeko's mental condition deteriorates rapidly and she eventually commits suicide. The film was released theatrically in Japan on September 23, 2006, and won the Don Quixote award at the 40th The film is divided into 5 chapters, the first four of which are named after characters in the film: Noriko, Yuka, Kumiko and Tetsuzo, in that order. This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love. 1 of 3 people found this review helpful. There, after making new and unknown friends, she feels truly at "home" and eventually, on December 10, 2001, runs away from her unhappy life to Tokyo, where she plans on meeting the website's leader, a mysterious girl who uses the screen name "Ueno Station 54". A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.

Finally, Tetsuzo, Kumiko, Mitsuko and Yuka dine together as a happy family and Tetsuzo begins acting as if Kumiko is his wife, calling her Taeko. Noriko finds her small-town life unsatisfying and craves to move to Tokyo, assum A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud. Ikeda sends Kumiko away on an errand and Tetsuzo reveals himself.

Told in a fractured style, the film is an extension of Sono s runaway success Suicide Club. A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com.

With Kazue Fukiishi, Tsugumi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Shirô Namiki. A shy and demure 17-year-old girl named Noriko Shimabara (Feeling alienated and misunderstood by her parents, Noriko resorts to the internet where she finds Haikyo.com, a website where other teenagers from Japan gather. Mitsuko awakens shortly thereafter and, speaking to herself, bids goodbye to Yuka, adolescence, Haikyo.com and Mitsuko, before finally declaring that she is Noriko. He copes by communicating his care and love to his father. Was this review helpful to you? Meanwhile, Tetsuzo, a reporter, gathers clues regarding his daughters' disappearances and discovers Yuka's story. Use the HTML below.

As the session falls apart, thugs from the organisation arrive on site to beat up Tetsuzo, who attacks them with a knife and kills all of them in the living room. Low-profile theater troop actor Mutsugoro Suzuki begins an oneiric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the one responsible of infecting him with a STD.

All this to say, it is a very intense movie that left my jaw hanging open throughout the entire viewing thinking "What the f***? The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. An earth-quake causes a nuclear crisis in a fictive Japanese prefecture. Shiro is twenty-seven years old and is tormented by his father's terminal cancer diagnosis. It is probably the most disturbing Japanese film I have seen, and despite what the movie poster suggests, that is accomplished without any graphic depictions of sex, violence, or gore (excluding the last scene). Once in Six months later, 54 girls jump in front of a train at Shinjuku station and commit suicide while Noriko and Kumiko look on. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. What am I watching?". Back in Toyokawa, Yuka, who was also a member of Haikyo.com, wonders if her sister was involved in the mass suicide. If enjoy for example, the filmography of Takashi Miike but want something a bit more sophisticated I would advise you this is a must see.