It’s telling that the freshest portions of Noriko’s Dinner Table are the flashbacks to Sono’s previous film.
Noriko's Dinner Table(紀子の食卓)
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Japan · 2006
2h 39m
Director Sion Sono
Starring Kazue Fukiishi, Tsugumi, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ken Mitsuishi
Genre Drama, Thriller
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A teenager named Noriko runs away from her family in Toyokawa to meet Kumiko, the leader of an internet cult who hires out members to clients who want to pretend they have a family. Things take a dark turn, however, after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
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Neither a prequel nor a sequel. Nor is it really much of a horror movie: It's a bizarre, bloody family drama that puts its predecessor into a larger social context.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Through a barrage of fragmented images of lurid events, escalating hysteria and sheer madness, Sono holds up a cracked mirror to modern life, inspiring the viewer to think with unexpected seriousness about what it means to be a human being.
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