Suicide Club (2001)
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AKA: Suicide Circle; Jisatsu Sakuru
Directed by: Sion Sono
Starring: Ryo Ishibashi (Kuroda), Masatoshi Nagase (Shibu), Saya Hagiwara (Mitsuko), Rolly (Genesis)
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese (English subtitles)
Runtime: 01:39:30
Genres: Gore-Gruesome, Teens, Violence Against Animals, Self-Harm, Internet Dangers, Detective-Mystery, Scars
Plot – Spoilers:
Suicide Club has one of the most spectacular openings to a movie when a line of smiling girls throw themselves in front of an approaching train. The police haven’t a clue, as the body count continues to pile with more and more teenagers killing themselves for no apparent reason. Almost on a whim. Like a fad. Not even having been told to “Kill yourself.”
I don’t even know what to say…confusing AF. Made it to the end though and then read the comments which helped.
Still not a fan. The kid band is corny AF. Even if they are subliminally telling their listeners to off themselves, how the fuck would they know how to pick up on the secret code? That’s the part that makes no sense to me because in the lyrics of their music, Dessert only ever offers upbeat themes and messages. Maybe I’ve over analyzed it – idk.
The opening scene was great, I honestly stayed for the cute women peppered throughout – if there hadn’t been any, I would have stopped watching 10-15 min into it.
Give it a shot; may be more appealing to you than I found it.
4/10
EXPLAINED (CONTAINS SPOILERS). To anyone who didn’t understand it: Dessert (the girl children band) send subconscious messages to their audience to commit suicide, in that scene (20 minutes before the ending) we see that girl from the hospital (the one with the butterfly tattoo on the back of her shoulder) that decrypted the hidden in plain sight message, the poster of Dessert girls posing. Their fingers pointed out how many times to press in a mobile phone (the old ones with the buttons like Nokia, before the smartphones) the number which was featured in each girl’s shirt. Doing that creates “suicide” in sms text so this lead to their audience (and that explains why they were only young people who killed themselves like children or teenagers) to follow this subconsious command. The goth-alike Suicide Club (the one with the adults who kidnapped the two girls from their home while they were watching the bizarre website and writting on the BBS board) weren’t the real perpetrators (maybe copycats who tried to distract the investigations of the police from the Dessert band) and the only reason they let themselves be arrested was so police would stop chasing the mastermind behind all of this suicide fad. My estimation is that the deeper reason why the members of the Dessert band (and their believers who were featured on the theatre scene in the ending scene) did this because they were neglected by their parents, we all know how Japan’s culture is so absolute and… Read more »
Man I wish I could finally kill myself :/
Leaves you with the feeling of “What the fuck did I just watch?”
Exactly what we come here for!
It’s weird and doesn’t always make sense, but every moment is gripping and confusing.
What? Is this some .. ihave no idea what 5he last part of the film was about.. from the blond guy singing to the kids at the stage. Weird film.
why does the dude say moshi moshi even though he’s not speaking on the phone
Tbh, I was getting bored throughout the film, then when genesis came onto the screen with his group I was initially intrigued, especially when he expressed his delusions of grandeur (I can relate), but when he gets caught and is pretty much exposed as a poser to us I was disappointed , initially I did think dessert was fishy from the get go, but the pay off was weak. I guess this is based of a manga. It would’ve been better if the genesis had bigger part in it. It would’ve been more entertaining to see him and his gang kill and draw out more of their sadistic hijinks imo.
im going to go watch spideman across the spideverse
sounds like a pretty sick ass club to me
these gooks can barley see and they walkin off buildings n shi
It is astounding how emotional some people get over an opinion on a movie lol
It was great I just wish it didn’t copy the Evangelion congratulations scene wholesale.
i really like this movie.
suicide club
Trust the stupid Americans in the comments to not understand what is going on. Fucking morons
fuck me japane
Ah, Sion sono…….by looking at his picture in IMDB you can tell this dude is sick genius. My favorite work is guilty of romance in which he portraits the collapse of his society’s values in a nice way.
Sad movie
legendary
Oh I see now it s Siono. ..Knda fitting actually: Very good.. then pretty bad and too nonsensically random. There s a very “professional amateurialness” in the style of Siono’s cinema that is quite charming and endearing, but that (real shame) ends up often in an insubstantial shallownes that reveals a heavy poverty of real genius and brilliance at the foundation. Still, not too bad until the feeble connections holdin it together, that at first result even ineteresting in some way, start falling apart and turn into a mere emptiness of sort… For the opening (and not much more) I would have to raccomand it. I remember I liked Llove Exposure very much (i have a bit of a thing for cults and that kind of stuff) it was the first of his movies I saw tho and I m afraid I ll realize it has the same characteristic at a second watch . I go random too tho now, Anybody s seen liverleaf? That was heavy hard.. and personally I wouldn’t have pushed it that far but…. if we talk disturbing !! I think it s Eisuke Naito’s, possibly hard to find (I didn’t check on this site. ) And same director, from manga, odd really for me but I loved one called something with leichi in the title, or similar , the fruit anyhow. …Very peculiar and… well I d say one of those things that are not for many, but pushy in some unexpected ways and pretty… Read more »
suicide club, the club i would joined in highshool
The manga is waaay better than this.
I thought it was ok. Great to be able to tick it off the list. Interesting but strange.
This reminds me of that movie “Kairo”
awful movie no cap
Today I watched Suicide Club
g ood
great concept but painfully mediocre execution. though i guess i’m incredibly grateful since without the underdeveloped plot we wouldn’t have noriko’s dinner table.
poorly explained, not really well developed
Very intriguing and atmospheric until the introduction of the goofy glam gang. That, and everything after, was so fucking stupid and nonsensical.
it’s an okay movie, but the sequel Noriko’s Dinner Table is definitely better