Synopsis
Tired of her ordinary life with her family, high schooler Noriko runs away from home to meet Kumiko, a friend she made on an internet chat site. She meets her at the Ueno Station and goes to various homes with her, pretending to be a family member of unhappy, lonely individuals. Around that time, 54 high school girls commit group suicide at the Shinjuku Station and tensions escalate as Noriko's father comes to Tokyo in search of his daughter. A girl seeking a sense of existence, family rules that are either pretended or against the general norm and a group suicide... what started out as a teenage flick quickly becomes a suffocating psycho-thriller about present-day Japan. The film can be described as a mid-term settlement of Sono Sion\'s world, who is known as the poet of imagery in the Japanese independent film scene. It is also in parallel with Suicide Club, which helped him to emerge as one of world's renowned cult directors.