Suicide Club Movie Review 2002

Fifty-four high school girls join hands and leap to their deaths from a subway platform into the path of an oncoming train. Police detective Kuroda (Ishibashi) receives a message from a mystery girl who informs him of a website that predicts the deaths even before they happen. With a continuing rash of suicides in Tokyo, the police are baffled--are the jumpers part of a cult and does a teen-girl pop group have some strange influence? Very bloody, very surreal, and a wicked social critique of disaffected Japanese youth. Japanese with subtitles.

Distribution

TLA Releasing, 234 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19106, Phone: (215)733-0608, Toll-free: 800-333-8521, Fax: (215)733-0637, Email: sales@tlavideo.com, URL: http://www.tlareleasing.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 92 minutes.
Originally from Japanese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Tokyo, Suicide, Teen Angst, Police Detectives

Screenplay

Sono Sion

Cast

Ryo Ishibashi, Takashi Nomura, Masatoshi Nagas, Tamao Sato, Mai Housyou

Cinematography

Kazuto Sato

Director

Sono Sion