Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)

Original title

紀子の食卓

Directed by

Sion Sono

Genre

drama film, horror film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 39m

Rated

R15+

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 160 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl runs away from her unhappy home to Tokyo, where she becomes part of a strange online community that offers a new identity. Her sister follows to find her, and their father searches for them both as their family starts to break apart.

disturbingmelancholicslow-burnpsychologicalunsettlingbleakatmospheric

What happens

Noriko's Dinner Table (Japanese: 紀子の食卓, Hepburn: Noriko no Shokutaku) is a 2005 Japanese psychological horror film written and directed by Sion Sono. The film serves as a prequel to Sono's 2002 independent horror film Suicide Club. Suicide Club concerns the mass suicide of fifty-four schoolgirls and how it leads the law to a shadowy cult. Noriko's Dinner Table takes place before, during, and after the previous installment's timeline as an attempt to resolve several questions left unanswered. Themes explored include the generation gap in modern families, the malleability of personal identity, social alienation, suicide, and the use of the Internet. The film received special mention at the 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, before being released theatrically in Japan on September 23, 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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