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- Release Date: 2006
- Runtime: 159 min
- Genre: Drama, Horror
- Starring: Kazue Fukiishi, Tsugumi, Ken Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yoshitaka ... see all
- Director: Sion Sono
- Plot: A teenager called Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Tokoyama, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which... Read more
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| Jul 06, 2007Boxoffice Magazine
Watching Noriko's Dinner Table , a ludicrously overlong psychodrama-cum-thriller, one is aghast at the maddening artistic freedoms enjoyed by writer/director Sion Sono, all to the purpose of inflating a simple and simplistic self-discovery melodrama. ... Full Review
| Jul 06, 2007Los Angeles Times
Sion Sono's "Noriko's Dinner Table" embraces these tendencies with gusto and striking originality.....Noriko's Dinner Table" is a tantalizing mystery tale, an acute social commentary on the world of the Internet and cult mentality -....Just one minute short of three hours, the film is a boldly fragmented.... ... Full Review
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Sion Sono's artistic touch does bring depth to many scenes, but the more emotional sequences are overwrought to the point of melodrama..... ... Full Review
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By: Mr. Disgusting One of the craziest J-horror films of all time is the classic 'Suicide Club,' which opens with 54 girls jumping in front of a moving train. ... Full Article
Noriko's Dinner Table
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2007-06-05
The sequel to Suicide Club , Sion Sono's J-horror hit, this film follows young Noriko from her pastoral home to the ravages of modern Tokyo. ... Full Article
Japanese director Sion Sono's follow-up to the disturbing - and disturbingly popular - 2002 shocker SUICIDE CLUB (aka SUICIDE CIRCLE) is neither a prequel nor a sequel. ... Full Article
Strange but suggestive, "Noriko's Dinner Table" reps less a sequel to helmer Sion Sono's previous horror satire "Suicide Club" than an existential parallel. "Table" follows two teenage sisters who shed their identities to join a quasi-prostitution ring. ... Full Article
The result is a bravura, high-risk work that raises an array of provocative questions about parent-child relationships, the treacherous quest for happiness and fulfillment, the complex interplay between reality and make-believe and the mutability of identity. ... Full Article