自殺サークル (Suicide Club) 2001 R18+
When
6.30 pm, Fri 17 Jul 2015 (99 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
'Now an iconic image of contemporary horror and dread, Suicide Club begins with an impossibly cheerful and gruesome mass suicide. On a seemingly normal day on the Tokyo subway, 54 schoolgirls join hands, recite a rhyme and jump in front of an ongoing train. The rest of the film is an investigation into this mass suicide, as well as a series of others committed by young people across the country. The investigation leads to a strange website, a zany cult and some very weird people. Probably the best entry point in Sono's filmography as it features his darkest and lightest moments, the film effortlessly shifts from the macabre to the absurd from one sequence to the next. It even features a dark and strangely playful musical, the first of many in his career.' Sound on Sight
R18+ | High impact theme and violence
Production Credits
- Director: Sion Sono
- Script: Sion Sono
- Cinematographer: Kazuto Sato
- Editor: Akihiro Oonaga
- Year: 2001
- Runtime: 99 minutes
- Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 35mm