Noriko's Dinner Table
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- Movie: Noriko's Dinner Table
- Romaji: Noriko no shokutaku
- Japanese: 紀子の食卓
- Director: Sion Sono
- Writer: Sion Sono
- Producer: Yutaka Morohashi, Takeshi Suzuki
- Cinematographer Sohei Tanikawa
- Release Date: September 23, 2006
- Runtime: 159 Min.
- Genre: Drama / Mystery
- Distributor: Argo Pictures
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
17-year-old Noriko (Kazue Fukiishi) lives in a small town. She wants to attend a university in Tokyo, but her overbearing father opposes. Her conservative father believes that if she goes to Tokyo she might meet a guy and become pregnant. Noriko becomes sick and tired of her father and decides to run away.
In Tokyo, Noriko meets Kumiko (Tsugumi), who Noriko knows only through an online website. Noriko decides to live as her online ID Mitsuko and joins Kumiko's roleplaying "family rental" business - a business that rents out people to act as part of family members. A few months later, Noriko's younger sister Yuko (Yuriko Yoshitaka) also runs away to Tokyo and the "Suicide Club" becomes exposed ...
Notes
- Related titles:
- Suicide Club | Jisatsu saakuru (2002)
Cast
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| Kazue Fukiishi | Tsugumi | Yuriko Yoshitaka | Ken Mitsuishi | Sanae Miyata |
| Noriko Shimabara | Kumiko | Yuka Shimabara | Tetsuzo Shimabara | Taeko Shimabara |
Additional Cast Members:
- Shiro Namiki - Ikeda
- Toru Tezuka - Middle-Aged Man
- Yoko Mitsuya - Tangerine
- Tamae Ando - Broken Dam
- Naoko Watanabe - Cripple #5
- Manami Hisamoto
- Akari Ozawa
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Film Festivals
- 2009 (6th) Hong Kong Asian Film Festival - October 15th-30th - Director in Focus:Sion Sono
