Noriko's Dinner Table

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Noriko's Dinner Table

2005

2h 33m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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A Japanese teenager (Kazue Fukiishi) runs away to Tokyo to join a weird Internet cult whose leader (Tsugumi) hires out members to clients who want to pretend they have a family.

Raven Snook

Time Out

Rated: 4/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Noriko's Dinner Table embraces [suicidal] tendencies with gusto and striking originality. The film is a boldly fragmented and tantalizing saga.

Rated: 5/5

Jul 5, 2007

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Leslie Felperin

Variety

Too long by half.

Jun 13, 2007

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Marty Mapes

Movie Habit

Has a mind-blowing scene at its climax that takes the whole movie to set up

Rated: 4/4

Jun 19, 2008

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Norm Schrager

Filmcritic.com

part investigative mystery, part cultist drama, and you can pretty much guess where it's all going

Rated: 3/5

Aug 12, 2007

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Andy Klein

Los Angeles CityBeat

There is some excessive gore near the end, but, still, this is one of the best films I've seen this year.

Jul 15, 2007

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Audience Member

This is a masterpiece in my opinion. It viscerally and somehow delicately displays the female adolescent experience through in-your-face metaphor and outstandiong performances. This movie is a prize.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Audience Member

Yes it was a long movie but I was captivated by every minute of it. Extremely thought provoking, beautiful, tragic, insightful and thoughtful. Art in all its forms.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

This movie was a slow burn with a lot of drama. It definitely addressed some components of part 1 but enough for me to understand the details set out in part 1. The film was frustrating at times moving along very slowly. But it made up for this with a nice ending. Again I didn't understand much of this film but filled in some blanks by reading articles. I still don't see how part 2 answers the main questions from part 1, but I'll definitely be looking into this by reading more articles.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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A family under stress, a suicide club propagated by the Internet, a family for hire, an escape from home. Thus begins the quest for: "What exactly is a family and is it really that important?"

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

If you see this as a prequel for Suicide Club, you're going to be disappointed, instead, Noriko's Dinner Table as a standalone film is astounding. A lot more drama-oriented than shocking, characters easy to relate that will warm your heart always and with an unstoppable narration, it prepare for hours its ending that will leave anyone speechless.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

Think about your place in the world--The annihilation of self!!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Sion Sono

Director

Kazue Fukiishi

Noriko

Tsugumi

Kumiko

Yuriko Yoshitaka

Yuka

Ken Mitsuishi

Tetsuzo

Shiro Namiki

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Synopsis

A Japanese teenager (Kazue Fukiishi) runs away to Tokyo to join a weird Internet cult whose leader (Tsugumi) hires out members to clients who want to pretend they have a family.

Director: Sion Sono
Producer: Takeshi Suzuki
Screenwriter: Sion Sono
Production Co: Mother Ark
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 23, 2018
Runtime: 2h 33m