DVD : Suicide Club (Suicide Circle)
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: TLA RELEASING
EAN: 0807839000580
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: TLA Releasing
Manufacturer: TLA Releasing
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: TLA Releasing
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 14443
Studio: TLA Releasing
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Description:
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. Are the jumpers part of a cult? What is the connection to the website that chronicles suicides...before they happen? And, what is the connection to the Japanese all-girl pop group "Desert?" Suicide Club is a stylish, bizarre thriller that examines pop culture and disaffected youth.
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Ok...this movie...I watched it 1 time through, then jumped to several moments that I thought contained meaning to the theory driving it...but I still don't understand. People here have been saying that the movie somehow represents the "disconnection" that people in societies have on towards their human side; we have indulged ourselves into jaded lives, wrapped into other meaningless pursuits such as the media, materialistic possessions, etc. But that theme is still a length away from why these actual sucides occur. The film introduces a variety of vectors that drives this, whether it is those creepy little girl band or that blond haired emo band guy (for lack of a better description...) but I think that it is wrong to assume that any of these forces are directly behind the cause of the suicides. Talk about confusing. Now, the gist of this movie isn't about the physical links present in traditional murder-horror who-dun-it tales. Heck, the director may have not even realized all the possibilities and deep philosophical concepts that may spring up. It's peoples imaginations and their creativity that makes their reasoning come alive. This film is worth a look, o matter what conclusions you may draw in the end. And if you end up totally confused...well...just don't worry about it. And maybe think it over a bit if you think it is worth the time.
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Great. People use to think all us Asian people know Kung-Fu and dry-cleaning. Now add to that the ability to explode like a David Letterman watermelon every time our bodies impact something hard. While, Westerners in other movies merely hit the ground with an unprotesting thud, the sound Asian bodies make when they hit concrete in Sion Sono's Suicide Club is halfway between an ornate Baroque (nee. taco-bell) flatulence and a Jackson Pollack drip painting made inside a mosh pit.
Show offs.
Sion Sono's film Suicide Club, for me, is a film about the erosion of Japanese culture. While it gives a nod in the direction of Robert Bresson (mentioned in the script), it also draws from the work of Michael Haneke (A Bresson disciple). The speculation of cultures that are so steeped in rote repetition they have all but lost sight of their purpose in existence, is a driving theme behind Haneke's 7th Continent (where a family who tries to break free of daily drudgery by suicide ends up applying the identical 9-5 formula to killing themselves).
A film that is not traditionally resolved by "answers" is bound to stumble audiences, but the Suicide Club shows many hints along the way. Consider the discovery of the "skin-scroll," a scroll of human skin stitched together into a continuous riddle without words. The Japanese E-Makimono picture scroll is a tradition that presented storytelling in horizontal scrolls during the Kamakura period (11th-14h century) ... Read More
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Suicide Club was a good ride. Some parts very random and creepy but very different than any American flick I can think of.
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This movie in itself is not only one of the most original movies I have seen in a very long time but it is one of my favorite films period. Beautifully shot, great acting and a story line you may have to sit through a few viewings to get it all. Do yourself a favor and get this movie I suggest the unrated version to really get the full effect of this film. I'm not going to keep writing about this movie because i just don't want to give anything away .. just watch it
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This film suprised me greatly being that it was one of the first Japanese films i have watched where the acting, the story and the entire presentation were up to par if not exceeding that of American film. I had seen a lot of other films from Japan and am pleased to say that if you love Japan, a good horror movie with plenty of both blood, guts, and a meaty story line that will have you thinking for years to come, this is a film for you!
One of the most iconic opening sequences i have ever seen in a film; 54 Japanese school girls jump in front of an oncomming train only to have blood, body parts, and just plain gross launched at Everything and Everyone in the station. After getting over the vast amount of shock one feels after seeing the opening scene, the story picks up and sucks you in, always making want more. The basic story synopsis is a slew of mysterious suisides rave Tokyo and the surrounding areas of Japan, and a lone group of detectives devote their lives and sanity to try and solve the case. Time and Time again, its seems the "club" is always one step ahead of the police, always leading to yet another horribly bloody and enjoyable (and even sometimes completly unexpected) suicide. While this film may not be for everyone, if you love everything Japan, J-horror, almost laughable and over the top blood effects, as well as one of the most contraversial plots to ever hit the big screen, you will most deffinately LOVE this picture. Please Enjoy. also, if you liked this ... Read More
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