Japanese director Sion Sono's follow-up to the disturbing — and disturbingly popular — 2002 shocker SUICIDE CLUB (aka SUICIDE CIRCLE) is 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.
December 2001: Desperate to live a "real" life outside her provincial hometown on the Japanese coast, and emboldened by online exchanges with other women her age on a mysterious website called Haikyo.com, sullen 17-year-old Noriko Shimabara (Kazue Fukiishi) finally decides to pack a bag and escape tiny Toyokawa. Finally free of her domineering father,...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
159 mins