Movie

Noriko's Dinner Table

2005 · 159 min

A slow, unsettling plunge into loneliness and manufactured identity that lingers like a cold dream.

Tagline: The family that eats together stays together.
Overview: 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.
How it feels: Dark, bleak, melancholic and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Identity, isolation, family, loneliness
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Full breakdown

Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
isolation
family
loneliness
death
Places: small town
big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild