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Suicide Club
(2002)
At the Shinjuku station on May 26th, everything is normal. Students are filing in the train station to go home. As the 19T train approaches 54 girls step up to the edge of the platform, clasp hands, and say “one and a two and a three” before jumping in front of the moving train, killing them all. The girls were from 18 different high schools and there doesn’t seem to be any connection between them.
While the police are discussing the mass suicide they get a call from "The Bat". "The Bat" tells the police about a website that have dots on them. Each dot represents the number of people who have committed suicide. The red dots are women and the white dots are men. More dots appear before the suicides happen.
When two nurses commit suicide a bloodied sports bag is found at the scene. Inside is a roll of strips of skin that is stitched together. The police go to the train station and find a similar bag in the lost and found containing the same thing. The skin seems to come from the suicide victims. The police become more worried as more and more groups of people kill themselves. What is the trigger for these suicide clubs? Who is predicting their deaths and what does a small kid with a weird speech impediment and a glam J-Rocker have to do with it?
You Learn Something New Everyday...
 People can change their views on suicide within seconds.
Japanese people think it's funny to emulate others who have killed themselves.
Suicide can be comical.
Zing!
There weren't any good lines, but the scene where the detective finds the ear on the ledge of the classroom was pretty funny.
Survey SAYS...
Wow. What a friggin’ head scratcher. I need someone to explain this one to me. I wasn’t really sure what feelings the movie was trying to invoke from me. First of all, it was comically violent. It’s sad when a large group of people kill themselves and you laugh. I couldn’t help it though, there was just so much blood it was funny. Second, was this movie supposed to be scary? A thriller? Suspense? It seemed like it was trying to be scary, but was goofier more than anything else. However, as the movie progressed, it did seem to get more disturbing, like when the woman sawed her fingers off and, of course, the killing of cats and dogs was horrible. Luckily they were in bags and didn’t show it.
So, I was thinking…the Suicide Club wouldn’t get to me because I didn’t get their riddles. "Do you know yourself?" "Do you have a connection with yourself?" "Will that connection with yourself transcend death?" Like, I got the part about the connections with other people will live on after death, but when people start that babble about self I get totally lost. I also didn’t understand the end. How did those kids know everything? What was that j-glam rocker/transvestite guy and his bowling alley lair about? Why were people so cult-like about those J-Pop girls who sang about mail? What about the girl in the end? Her skin got taken; did she kill herself? Ahh! I have so many unanswered questions. However, despite all the confusion…I really liked this movie. It had a lot of good suspense and thrill-age to it. I wouldn’t recommend this to people who are squeamish about blood or talk about suicide and death (as the teens take it very lightly). For the rest of you sick f-o’s out there…enjoy!
If you like...Japanese flicks with English subtitles, cult-like behavior, drag queens, killer transvestite shoes, pleasure rooms, bad English singing, human pets, cameos from the bag from American Beauty, comical gore, Super Lovers advertising, and little kids who know more about the way the world works then you’ll ever figure out in a lifetime...this is the flick for you. As for us...we give Suicide Club
That Wasn't so Bad Was It?
I was left Feeling: Confused
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