Noriko's Dinner Table
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| Directed by | Sion Sono |
| Produced by | Takeshi Suzuki |
| Written by | Sion Sono |
| Starring | Kazue Fukiishi Ken Mitsuishi |
| Music by | Tomoki Hasegawa |
| Cinematography | Souhei Tanigawa |
| Edited by | Junichi Ito |
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Mother Ark Co. Ltd.
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Eleven Arts (Worldwide) Tidepoint Pictures |
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Running time
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159 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Noriko's Dinner Table (Japanese: 紀子の食卓 Hepburn: Noriko no Shokutaku?) is a 2006 Japanese psychological horror film, and a prequel to the independent horror film Suicide Club/Jisatsu Sākuru (2002), written and directed by Sion Sono.
Suicide Club concerns the mass suicide of 54 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.
Noriko's Dinner Table explores various issues including the generation gap in modern families, the malleability of personal identity, social alienation, suicide, and the use of the Internet.
The film was released theatrically in Japan on September 23, 2006, and won the Don Quixote award at the 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic and a special mention.
The film is divided into 5 chapters, the first four of which are named after characters in the film: Noriko, Yuka, Kumiko and Tetsuzo, in that order. The plot is told non-linearly and shifts between the perspectives of Noriko, Yuka and Tetsuzo.
A shy and demure 17-year-old teenage girl named Noriko Shimabara (Kazue Fukiishi) lives with her quiet family, formed by her sister Yuka (Yuriko Yoshitaka), her mother Taeko (Sanae Miyata), and her father Tetsuzo (Ken Mitsuishi), in Toyokawa, Japan. Noriko finds her small-town life unsatisfying and craves to move to Tokyo, assuming she would live a more active life there. This sentiment is especially encouraged when she finds that her elementary school friend Tangerine (Yoko Mitsuya) is now working independently as an idol. Noriko's father is strictly against her going to the city, and plans on having her join a local university after school.
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