Ryo Ishibashi, Akaji Maro, Masatoshi Nagase

One day, 54 smiling, singing highschool girls inexplicably link hands and jump onto the tracks of an oncoming bullet train. Their deaths seems to trigger a wave of suicides all over Japan. A detect...( read more  read more... )ive sets out to discover the root of all the deaths, but discovers something more disturbing.

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Unrated, 99 min.

Directed by: Sion Sono

Release Date: October 1, 2002

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DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003

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  • October 18, 2009
    I'm ashamed to admit that only recently discovered who Sion Sono is, and I made sure to watch his most renowned film - that of Suicide Club.

    The movie is absolutely great, and even though stretched far and away, it manages to portray perfectly the generation of today; th...( read more)e Facebook, Twitter, YouTube generation, whose oxygen is the internet. It speaks perfectly of the loss of self-identity in the masses and the gullibility and brain-washing that comes out of being a technology addict.

    Everything about is prodigious and sublimely disturbing. For me the first scene is already a cult classic.
  • June 21, 2009
    This is only the second asian horror flick i've seen (the first being ringu) and it was at the opposite end of the spectrum from that movie. In the end I kinda liked it, but I didn't like it that much when I was actually watching it, too gross.
  • January 25, 2009
    This has to be one of the weirdest movies Ive seen. Unfortunately im in no shape to write movie reviews right now so yall just have to wait for my proper review to come out.
  • October 28, 2008
    This is one of the funniest albeit confounding movies I have seen in a long long time. This is a happy film with a happy ending. A connection is finally made between young and old, the pop group's work is done and the most suicidal of the teenagers, the one whose boyfriend surpri...( read more)ses her by landing on her when he jumps off a building in a suicide attempt, but doesn't die until he's had time to discuss the irony of the event with her, (tell me that isn't pure comic genius).

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  • October 24, 2008
    social commentary? gimme a fucking break.
  • November 2, 2009
    This movie kept me guessing, in fact, I'm still guessing! I guess I couldn't make whatever connections this movie was trying to portray. I just know that it was really freaky to see all of these suicides happening while a group of pre-teen little girls are singing and dancing on ...( read more)stage about life and happiness. As much as I couldn't understand this movie I did kind of like it. Every time the movie slows down something will happen to wake you up again. I think this movie is something you have to see for yourself. It's not easily describable or comparable to anything else. Suicide is trendy. Didn't you know?
  • October 30, 2009
    Blech, terrible! Indecipherable, boring, and weird (and not in a good way).
  • October 23, 2009
    Mostly really hilarious. Black comedy-ish.The plot is a tangled mess and I couldn't get much out of it - in need of a rewatch maybe.
  • October 4, 2009
    i wanna see it for a long time```````where can i download it in china?
  • October 1, 2009
    Yummy, bloody, Japanese schoolgirls. Human flesh cinnamon-rolls. This movie just warms up the soul.

    Surprisingly well thought-out, considering this film had obvious budget constraints. Very smartly planned and executed sequences. I had been curious since reading the synopsis, ho...( read more)w they would pull off showing 54 schoolgirls getting hit by an oncoming train. Something that I'm sure was very tricky to pull off.

    The idea for this film seems completely absurd. For Japanese horror, however, nothing new. Especially nothing new as of late, considering how much fake blood has been spilled in Japan in the last decade. I felt myself making connotations to middle school, and high school, when kids did the stupidest shit to fit in. It wasn't so much about fitting in, as you will find by watching... but definitely follows your mother's old saying: "If all of your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?" And the answer is yes. This is Suicide Club, bitch.

    I enjoyed seeing the story from the side of the detectives, in a way, oblivious to what was happening. Surprisingly intense, and suspenseful plot build.

    I found many of frames to be quite artistic... very decent photography overall.

    My favorite moment would have to be with the character of Genesis. Who is a Japanese version of Tim Curry (Rocky Horror) spliced with David Bowie (Ziggy, Labyrinth). "I've always had delusions of grandeur since a child..."

    This film, sick and absurd as it may be, connected to me on a deep level. The main idea is not just how teenagers will follow a trend until the end, literally. Or how influential and powerful the force of the youth can be; this is also very much about the idea of life more simplistically. This is explained to us by the young girl, or mastermind, who tells us how our souls and spirits are still connected to this worldly realm, even after our bodies die. However, that also, our true life begins in death. Boiled down so simplistically by the pop group depicted in this film, "Dessert"... and their song "Jigsaw"..... playfully singing: "life is just a jigsaw puzzle...." Maybe speaking of how the actual saw cuts the pieces to the puzzle is an even more simplistic way of chopping it down. True life is achieved in death. Maybe that is a more concise way of looking at this seemingly 1-layered meaning.

    This movie, above all, was highly entertaining. Recommended to anyone at all looking for an Asian Horror fix.

    "There's no Suicide Club you know...." anyone in the club officially, is dead, therefore making the club non-existent.

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