When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the answer, which isn't as simple as he had hoped.
Suicide Circle, Jisatsu Sâkuru, Клуб самоубийц, El club del suicidio, El club de los suicidas
In 1990, Sion Sono traveled to the US to study at UC Berkeley. He claims to have spent the entire time he was there (around 15 months) watching B-movies and porno films, at a rate of about 5 films a day. He decided, during this period, that he would return to Japan and make the kinds of films that Japan would hate. And so he did. From what I've heard, most Japanese people hate Suicide Club. Well, that's their loss I guess.
There's a noteworthy touch of irony in the fact that this film was criticized for being too thematically ambiguous, whereas his later film, Tag, has been criticized for being too overt with its thematic payload. People need to…
A very entertaining but very strange horror movie. Creepy cheerful and very gorie and becomes stranger as well as twisted. Stranger maybe an understatement! Starring Roy Ishibashi who is best known for starring in the Japanese cult horror cult hit Audition. He does an excellent job! If you haven’t seen it check it out!
''I'm Charles Manson of the information age!''
By the time the closing credits rolled on Sion Sono's apparent 'cult classic' Suicide Club, I was well and truly frustrated by my attempt to decode and draw some sense of satisfaction from it, and despite being a fan of Sono's work thus far (I have seen Cold Fish, Love Exposure and Why Don't You Play in Hell?), something was amiss here.
It is easy enough to read the film as social commentary on the plague of teen suicides that have erupted not only in Japan, but globally as well as the loneliness of city life and modern/digital living that paves the way to social and familial disconnect. Out of curiosity, I wandered…
A splatterfest with frighteningly cheerful deaths. People, including but not limited to japanese school girls, who are brainwashed by teen pop and internet forums start committing mass suicides. The fact that a horror film like Suicide Club was made in the early 21st century comes off as not surprising at all considering how at that time the world is charging full speed into the electronic information age.
Incoherent, incomprehensible, and god damn creepy. Features Tag (2015) aesthetics + madness but uses real (fake) blood instead of CGI. Looks like Sono has always been, and will always be Sono. Could this be his Videodrome? Interesting -- but, yo, seriously though, children really creep me out.
One nation plugged on the same wavelenght spining towards death. Not the most artful and careful among the many Japanese films from the turn of the century trying to get the country's psyche pulse post the Aum Shirinkyo terrorist attack (it is a Sion Sono film after all), but the desquiet at the center of it remains devasting.
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Langsam aber sicher, kristallisiert sich mir ein Bild von Sion Sono, denn in allen meine bisher gesehenen Filmen von ihm, kommen folgende Punkte vor:
-Schülerinnen – in Uniform
-Mädchenbands – die singen
-Blut – in Litermaßen
-Sehr viel Blut – in Badewannenmaßen
-Und bestenfalls gleich abgetrennte, abgenickte Körperteile, ob Arme, Beine oder dem männlichen Geschlechtsorgan
Alles bietet „Suicide Club“, perfekt eingebettet in eine Krimi-Geschichte mit einer Amazon-Prime-Qualität die durchaus zu wünschen übriglässt. Kleiner Pluspunkt: endlich einmal ein knackiger Hundertminüter ohne die ausladenden Werke, und meine zuvor gesehen, wie „Forest of Love“, und „Love Exposure“.
Sion Sono-Ranking - boxd.it/dkJtK
*no spoilers*
Hooptober 88:88 . 5 (1/8 Decades - 2000s)
TW: Frequent discussion of suicide.
The opening of ‘Suicide Club’ is possibly the most shocking moment to be found is Sono’s entire oeuvre, the image of a series of schoolgirls jumping to their deaths has become engraved in the minds of everybody who has watched this and the scene is now one of the most iconic moments from the new wave of extreme films to come from Asia at the dawn of the century. However, many forget to mention what makes this moment so shocking, and that is what follows. A clip of a performance from a fictional Japanese pop group that consists of 12 and 13 year old girls,…
Watching this moments after I woke up probably wasn’t the best decision for my mental health
Just like the onscreen blood, Suicide Club is sticky and messy in its satire. It clings to ideas about a culture that infantilises everything but the film's targets are spread over a wide canvas. This is a film that knew how the internet would creep into our lives. The way society is moving, our thoughts are reduced to pop culture saturated diktats. We're told how to think and feel by the homogeneous flavour of media ever-present in the modern world. The music heard in Suicide Club is tacky life-affirming trash, but the subversive way that it becomes a call for suicide is a brilliant stab at the sort of culture we're creating. This is suicide prepackaged, easy for anyone to digest,…
I dug it. I get why this isn’t for everybody and why much of the nation of Japan is included in that “everybody” but I thought it was honestly subversive and disturbing in a very fun and charming way. If you got to the glam rock part and weren’t onboard well then that was on you for watching a movie called Suicide Club. Wise up.
Wanna watch more from Sion Sono. I think it’s good to take in foreign films made by filmmakers who seem to hate their home countries and have very specific axes to grind with them.
The reality who exists is beyond human understanding.
There is no Suicide Club. Everything purged by the pain and abnormality.
