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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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)
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