Noriko's Dinner Table

Sep 23, 2005

2h 39m

★ 6.9

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.

Genres

Thriller

Drama

Production Companies

Mother Ark Co. Ltd.

Noriko's Dinner Table Trailers

Cast

Noriko / Mitsuko

Kazue Fukiishi

Kumiko / Ueno Station 54

Tsugumi

Yuka / Yoko

Yuriko Yoshitaka

Tetsuzo Shimabara

Ken Mitsuishi

Ikeda

Shirô Namiki

Taeko Shimabara

Sanae Miyata

Tangerine

Yoko Mitsuya

Broken Dam

Tamae Ando

Cripple #5

Naoko Watanabe

Midnight

Hanako Onuki

Long Neck

Chihiro Abe

Kumiko's Spokesman

Sora Tôma

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