Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- Moderate
- bleak
- disorienting
- paranoid
- late night arthouse viewing
- japanese horror marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly regard the film as an ambitious and disturbing expansion of Sion Sono's suicide and alienation themes, though its prolonged, unconventional structure divides viewers.
What sets it apart
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Noriko enters the Haikyo.com family circle and adopts alternate identities as online and offline selves blur.
Characters use names, personas, and family roles such as Noriko/Mitsuko and Kumiko/Ueno Station 54.
The internet family promises connection but becomes increasingly dark after the mass suicide of 54 girls.
The dysfunctional Shimabara household and the artificial family circle are rendered as uncanny extensions of alienation.
Films like Noriko's Dinner Table, and why
Suicide Club
internet-mediated identity crisis, alienated youth, and unsettling psychological horror
Antichrist
disturbed family dynamics, social alienation, and psychologically disorienting horror
Martha Marcy May Marlene
cult manipulation, fractured identity, and bleak contemporary horror
All About Lily Chou-Chou
youth disconnection, mediated reality, and formally experimental japanese psychological drama
Movie Details
- Director
- Sion Sono
- Release Date
- 2005-09-23
- Runtime
- 159 min
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 (167)
Cast
- Kazue Fukiishi
- Tsugumi
- Yuriko Yoshitaka
- Ken Mitsuishi
- Shirô Namiki
- Sanae Miyata
- Yoko Mitsuya
- Tamae Ando
- Naoko Watanabe
- Hanako Onuki
Common questions
- What is Noriko's Dinner Table about?
- A runaway Japanese teenager enters an online family whose promise of connection turns identity, intimacy, and belonging into disturbing performances.
- What is Noriko's Dinner Table like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Noriko's Dinner Table as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as dense.
- Is Noriko's Dinner Table violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Noriko's Dinner Table as moderate.
- What did critics think of Noriko's Dinner Table?
- Critics broadly regard the film as an ambitious and disturbing expansion of Sion Sono's suicide and alienation themes, though its prolonged, unconventional structure divides viewers.
- Which films are like Noriko's Dinner Table?
- Films with a similar feel include Suicide Club, Antichrist, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and All About Lily Chou-Chou.
- How long is Noriko's Dinner Table?
- Noriko's Dinner Table runs 159 minutes.
