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Jisatsu Sakuru

Suicide Club
Suicide Circle

Japan 2002
produced by
Seiya Kawamata, Junichi Tanaka, Toshiie Tomida, Seiji Yoshida, Atsushi Numata (executive), Toyoyuki Yokohama (executive) for Omega Project, For Peace Co
directed by Sion Sono
starring Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Tamao Sato, Takashi Nomura, Mai Hosho, Rolly, Yoko Kamon, Kimiko Yo, Hideo Sako, Akaji Maro
written by Sion Sono, music by Tomoki Hasegawa

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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When 54 schoolgirls jump in front of a train with a smile on their faces, as well as several other suicides happen, it does seem too much for the police to believe in a coincidence. So detectives Kuroda (Ryo Ishibashi) & Shibu (Masatoshi Nagase) start investigating & soon get a call from a mysterious woman called The Bat who leads them to a website directly linked to the suicides. &, at each site where suicides linked to the case took place, a sports bag was found containing a chain of squares of human skin stitched together - & as it turns out, each of the suicide victims has a part of skin missing. & while the suicides continue to happen all over the place, Kuroda receives a call from a child who tells him of the site of the next mass suicide - & by mentioning the chain of human skin he sounds convincing enough. But the stake-out at the supposed suicide site, a train station, leads to no result, since the only clue our copps had was a tattoo - & almost everybody is tattooed nowadays. But when Kuroda returns home, he finds his family has committed suicide, the mentioned tattoo was tghat of his own son. Kuroda receives another call from the little boy, who asks him about his connection to himself. Overcome by grief, Kuroda blows his own brains out. But who is the boy ? & what about the Bat ? & what has kiddie-pop-band Desert to do with it all ?  Well, the Bat is actually teenage girl Kiyoko (Yoko Kamon), who for her curiosity soon gets abducted by Genesis (Rolly), who is a megalomanic & murderous maniac who uses her to get arrested (for publicity reasons) as being the leader of the cult behind the suicide (the suicide club). But is he the real thing ? Mitsuko, girlfriend of one of the suicide-victims follows another clue by analyzing lyrics & promotional posters of Desert which to hint at their involvement. She soon goes to one of their concert venues & manages to get backstage, to be confronted with a group of children questioning her connection to herself - & soon a part of her skin is ripped off her, too, which is included in the next chain of human skin the police finds. But since exactly that part included a tattoo which detective Shibu is familiar with,  giving him finally his first clue. But when he finally catches up with her - at a train platform - & wants to prevent her from committing suicide - it might be she never planned to do so in the first place. Maybe the message Desert give in their final performance - "Live as you please" - applies here.

 

A very dark, morbid, macabre satire disguised as a horror mystery movie that takes on the superficiality of pop culture that nowadays tends to invade everything - from pop music to conspiracy theories to suicide. & though the mystery is dropped in the end, no easy solution found (or even because of it), this movie is just great.

 

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