Noriko's Dinner Table

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Noriko's Dinner Table

2005,

2h 33m,

Drama/

Mystery & Thriller

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64%

11 Reviews

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80%

1,000+ Ratings

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64%

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11 Reviews

80%

Popcornmeter

1,000+ Ratings

A Japanese teenager runs away to Tokyo to join a weird Internet cult whose leader hires out members to clients who want to pretend they have a family.

Kevin Thomas

Los Angeles Times

Jul 5, 2007

5/5

Noriko's Dinner Table embraces [suicidal] tendencies with gusto and striking originality. The film is a boldly fragmented and tantalizing saga.

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Leslie Felperin

Variety

Jun 13, 2007

Too long by half.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

New York Times

Jun 13, 2007

3/5

One of the most ambitious tonal mash-ups in memory, Noriko's Dinner Table is a domestic comedy, a bloody psychological thriller and a comment on the fragility of identity.

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Marty Mapes

Movie Habit

Jun 19, 2008

4/4

Has a mind-blowing scene at its climax that takes the whole movie to set up

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Norm Schrager

Filmcritic.com

Aug 12, 2007

3/5

part investigative mystery, part cultist drama, and you can pretty much guess where it's all going

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Andy Klein

Los Angeles CityBeat

Jul 15, 2007

There is some excessive gore near the end, but, still, this is one of the best films I've seen this year.

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Rey S

Oct 28, 2018

This movie was a slow burn with a lot of drama. It definitely addressed some components of part 1 but enough for me to understand the details set out in part 1. The film was frustrating at times moving along very slowly. But it made up for this with a nice ending. Again I didn't understand much of this film but filled in some blanks by reading articles. I still don't see how part 2 answers the main questions from part 1, but I'll definitely be looking into this by reading more articles.

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Han S

Jul 27, 2017

A family under stress, a suicide club propagated by the Internet, a family for hire, an escape from home. Thus begins the quest for: "What exactly is a family and is it really that important?"

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Sion Sono

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Kazue Fukiishi

Noriko

Tsugumi

Kumiko

Yuriko Yoshitaka

Yuka

Ken Mitsuishi

Tetsuzo

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Synopsis

A Japanese teenager runs away to Tokyo to join a weird Internet cult whose leader hires out members to clients who want to pretend they have a family.

Director: Sion Sono
Producer: Takeshi Suzuki
Screenwriter: Sion Sono
Production Co: Mother Ark
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 23, 2018
Runtime: 2h 33m

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