
Noriko's Dinner Table
The family that eats together stays together.
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Release Date
9/23/2005Runtime
159 minsOverview
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
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JapaneseBudget
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A deeply unsettling portrait of disconnection in the digital age, following a runaway girl into a fraying pseudo-family bound by loneliness and desperation. Kiyoshi Kurosawa builds quiet dread through precise observation of how damaged people create and destroy artificial intimacy.
Mood
UnsettlingBleakClaustrophobicTense
Themes
IdentityFamilyIsolationGriefComing apart
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticHandheld
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Suicide and self-harmChild endangerment
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