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Suicide Club

Ryo Ishibashi (Actor), Sion Sono (Director) Format: Blu-ray
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 440 ratings
IMDb6.5/10.0
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Japanese language, English subtitles, 1080p high definition, Region A disc. A wave of unexplainable suicides sweeps across Tokyo after 54 smiling high school girls join hands and throw themselves from a subway platform into an oncoming train. Detective Kuroda (Audition’s Ryo Ishibashi) and the rest of the police force are baffled as the bloodbath triggers a wave of suicides across the city. When a cryptic phone call tips off police to a strange website that appears to be tracking the suicides before they happen, the question becomes, are they really suicides at all? This outrageously bizarre, wicked social critique in the form of a creepy and enigmatic detective mystery examines the despair of the disaffected Japanese youth and the influence of pop culture on their lives. From international film festival favorite to cult sensation, Suicide Club is a study of contemporary morality that is gruesome, darkly comic and vividly original. Remastered in high definition and now on Blu-ray for the first time!

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  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 5 x 0.5 inches; 1 Pounds
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ TEST-See-N155
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Sion Sono
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 39 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ April 25, 2023
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Ryo Ishibashi
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Discotek Media
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BVGRY2J2
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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A.M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Arrived On Time And As Described
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024
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Binky Chottorrhœhia
5.0 out of 5 stars Thoughts On Watching Suicide Club For The Fourth Time
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2015
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In the years 2006-2008, before I had much interest in horror in general, I discovered the Japanese horror phenomenon with such films as Infection, Ju-On, Ringu, Audition, Three Extremes, Evil Dead Trap 2 and of course Takashi Miike's Gozu. I was lucky. I've since discovered that there was a lot of crap being floated across the Pacific that I serendipitously avoided, while as the same time discovering, almost by chance while browsing in the doomed cultural temple that was Blockbuster Video, rare gems such as Pulse and Suicide Club.

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I need to read the book of this. I need to.

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I've watched loads of Asian movies, overwhelmingly Japanese and mostly horror, and from Kurosawa's Stray Dog to the Splatter era Tokyo Gore Police, I have never seen the police force depicted in any sort of positive light. And outside the aforementioned Stray Dogs, the police force is never treated especially realistically. I suspect that this is because Japan lacks anything like America's current obsession with the procedure of police work as depicted and often misrepresented on countless TV shows. This film is no exception. If you want to, make a drinking game out of the ludicrous way in which the police task force here carries out its investigation, with double shots for every time someone tries to dismiss something as a "prank" which is obviously anything but.

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Granted not many people out there are into classic Greek drama anymore, but it helped me to realize that this piece is structured a lot more like a Euripides or Sophocles. The hapless police task force serves the same function as the choir would; we're not supposed to focus on their tactical and investigatory reactions so much as their emotional and philosophical ones as representative of those of established "adult" Japanese society to the rash of suicides that crop up without any apparent cause, but which seem increasingly to be an expression of Japanese youth.
Indeed—and a big SPOILER follows here—although we really don't find out much about the "Suicide Club" (which, as we learn from the associated movie Noriko's Dinner Table, is more than just a club and concerns itself with far more than just inciting mass suicides), we do learn that it seems to be an organization that turns on its the age-hierarchy that is so essential to Asian cultures: the youngest of the children seem to have the greatest power, the highest degree of initiation.

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The police force here may not be good for much, but look at the faces of the actors. What incredible, expressive faces; what an amazing range of faces to represent the crotchety society that the "Suicide Club" is rebelling against.

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Genesis both is and is not responsible for what has been happening, I'm guessing.

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Again, from an American standpoint, it's very weird that there's no one protagonist to follow through the whole movie. The police don't come in until after the unforgettable first scene and then an interlude in a hospital that seems extraordinarily long when you consider that we barely ever revisit that setting. Once the police plot-line is established, it feels as though that "is" the film, and it comes as something of a surprise when, in the movie's endgame, we jump focus to the character of Mitsuko (Sayako Hagiwara), whose face graces the cover of most DVD editions, but who seemed up until this point only a tangential character.
I think writer–director Shion Sono himself realized that this structure confused some audiences, maybe not only Western ones, and that this is the reason why he was so careful to break up his follow up Noriko's Dinner Table into discreet chapters, each with a unique point of view.

The time has come for an American remake of this film starring One Direction as Dessart/Dessert
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Kimberlee
5.0 out of 5 stars It's great. More then I thought!
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2023
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In my late teens early 20s I really got into Asian horror and watched a lot of different things but haven't as much these years. I was always meaning to watch this one. I thought it was gonna be a very one note movie just kids commiting suicide together. Shocking bloody simple. It definitely is not! There is all kinds of variety and strange things in this movie. Different locations and characters of all kinds, we are in a hospital with nurses and moody dark lighting, it's all sort of funny, the is the school rooftop, subways, dancing singing kid pop idols, mystery, gross skin ritual, cult, glam rock rocky horror villains in a bowling alley, good catchy musical numbers. A dad cop and his family and home, Children, teens, adults. Humorous, disturbing, and horrific, kind of a pretty, cute, fun, stylish, weird delight. It has a rather important meaningful sweet ending too?? It has everything. Was sitting smiling thinking wtf at the end. Lol. Glad I saw this one a little later in life. Because it was a burst of freshness after I've seen so many similar things over the years.
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Manfred Zeichmann
4.0 out of 5 stars Gory suicides and cute J-Pop: a weird experience
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2006
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Do not expect to understand this movie fully! Well, it does not have a confusing storyline (it is told quite straitforward) and I have seen my share of bizarre Japanese films, but it is one of those movies, where at the end you scratch your head and ask youself if you have missed something. Maybe it takes a greater intellectual than me but the end of the film quite confused me... However this does not indicate that I regret having watched the DVD! On the contrary, SUICIDE CLUB is a hugely entertaining and well made movie for the adventurous film fan.

Contrary to my usual practice I will not provide a plot synopsis, as SUICIDE CLUB is one of those films, where the lesser you know about the story, the more you will enjoy it. It is absolutely unpredictable. As I already said, prepare for a unsatisfactory ending!

Splatter galore in the many suicide scenes makes this one a winner - particularly in the famous scene at the start where 54 girls in their schooluniforms jump in front of an incoming train and a later mass suicide, where dozens of pupils jump down from the rooftop of their school after a casual chat about the recent suicide fad(which I found an even more impressive scene than the train suicide). Admittedly much of the gore is computer generated, but it is well done. However it is not only the splatter department in which SUICIDE CLUB excels. The whole film is filled with eerie athmosphere and many scenes will have you on the edge of your seat (standout sequence: the policemen stake out the train platforms after a second mass suicide has been anounced.) Particularly unnerving was a juvenile psychopath named Genesis, the type of disturbing but believeable teenage psycho so common in Japanese horror films (if you have seen the ALL NIGHT LONG movies, you will know what I mean). Annoyingly there was also a scene with animal cruelty in the film, which (despite being clearly faked) did not sit well with me.

Actors are convincing in their roles. I also enjoyed the teenie

J-Pop band DESSART - their song "mail me" is not only crucial to the suicides and the plot, but it is a great haunting tune as well. I wish the soundtrack for SUICIDE CLUB was available on CD!

To sum it up: SUICIDE CLUB is a great debut film for director Sion SONO (if I remember correctly what I had read on a Japanese film website SONO had done only gay sexfilms prior to SUICIDE CLUB)and while this horror film due to its subject matter involving suicides of teenagers and the offbeat story may not be for everyone, it comes hugely recommended by this reviewer!

Unfortunately there are few extra features on the DVD. There is a picture gallery with only a couple of movie stills and the SUICIDE CLUB trailer, which is great and sells the film well. There are also three other trailers, none of which I found well made or of interest: BETWEEN YOUR LEGS (a Spanish erotic thriller), CHILDREN OF HANNIBAL (which appears to be a gay comedy from Italy) and THE BATHERS (apparently a French erotic film of the arthouse variety).
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Gil
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy buena
Reviewed in Mexico on January 16, 2024
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La película es extremadamente buena, Discotek Media hizo un gran trabajo de remasterización y subtitulaje, ojo, solo viene con subtítulos en inglés
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Astaroth
5.0 out of 5 stars Toller film.
Reviewed in Germany on February 21, 2021
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Sehr guter film für J-horror fans. Am besten zusammen mit dem Nachfolger Norikos dinnertable anschauen um offene fragen beantwortet zu bekommen.
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Carl
5.0 out of 5 stars Suicide Club
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2017
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Same as Noriko's Dinner Table, Love this movie since it's first came out in UK.. Highly recommended...
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Kouz1 UB
5.0 out of 5 stars SUICIDE PUNK !
Reviewed in France on February 4, 2016
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Sono Sion est fous ! Comme beaucoup de réal Japonais, non ?! Lui au moins il as le mérite d'assumer ses oeuvres, qui peuvent être choquante, bouleversante ou tous simplement provocatrice ! Et Suicide Club c'est un peu tous ça réunis : Un coup de gueule envers la société a travers un mode d'expression qu'est le suicide depuis des temps immémoriaux au Japon jusqu'à aujourd'hui et sa reconversion occidental, ainsi que le portrait de la famille heureuse, et surtout d'une jeunesse désabusé par un système qui est mis en place dès le début des années d'écoles mais avec un acharnement que nous Français somment très loin d'imaginer.
Une scène d'intro que j'attendais plus gore avec ses 50 Lycéennes qui se jètent sous un train dans le métro de Shinjuku, mais le reste du film ma fichu une sacrée claque que se soit au niveau gore que de l'ambiance malsaine par certains moments, sans oublier une scène de flippe style film d'horreur Nippon dans un hôpital.
Un film Indé, un film Punk, un film Fous, un film Insolent, mais surtout un film bouleversant de vérités ! Et pourtant un polar avec ses personnages policiers, mais aussi un polar dans sa structure narrative, ainsi qu'une révélation des plus inattendus.
PS : En bonus ds l'édition KAZE que j'ai eu, une interview (2006/8) du Réal qui explique ses motivations a l'époque (2002) de faire ce film. Et en plus 15mn sur le phénomène du suicide au pays du soleil levant par Julien Sévéon de la "Mad Movies Team" qui est aussi responsable de l'interview.En prime quelques B.A de films qu'on ne verrat pas a la T.V chez nous !
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5.0 out of 5 stars !
Reviewed in France on August 8, 2020
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Bon paquet, arrivée dans les temps. Chefs d'œuvres en collection.
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