Sunday, January 25, 2009

NORIKO'S DINNER TABLE


Noriko's Dinner Table is a 2005 Japanese drama thriller written and directed by Sion Sono, starring Kazue Fukiishi and Ken Mitsuishi.

Noriko is a young girl who lives in Toyokawa with her father, mother and younger sister. To escape from her unhappy reality, she constantly logs on to Haikyo.com, a BBS web site where she finds other high school girls like her. One of these girls, Ueno54, induces Noriko to run away from her house and she does so, in Tokyo she meets a young woman called Kumiko, her BBS friend, who runs a "family circle program", where she takes in young girls who are unhappy with their lives and gives them new personalities and families; Noriko joins it and her younger sister Yuka does so eventually. But the circle grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls, and it spreads larger and larger under the unfeeling control of Kumiko.

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