Suicide Club 4K 2001 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

A wave of suicides sweeps Tokyo after 54 schoolgirls throw themselves in front of a subway train. Afterward, the police discover a strange website that displays suicides before they occur in reality.

Review 4K Movie

On May 26, 2001, 54 schoolgirls threw themselves under a train. Streams of “tomato paste” spilled from under the train onto the subway platform and people's faces. While the train driver tried in vain to brake, sliding along the bloodstained tracks, the bodies and bones of the suicidal girls were crushed by the wheels. People are in shock. The police are at a loss. It is almost impossible to identify the bodies. There are no connections between the schoolgirls, who attend different schools. The press publishes newspapers with screaming headlines about a certain Suicide Club. A mysterious website counts the deaths of girls and boys with red and white dots. Mass hysteria covers Tokyo with a leaden blanket, accompanied by new waves of suicides.

The modern world cannot find a connection with itself. This is how bad fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, friends, and colleagues who are unable to “play” their roles appear. Alienation and social pressure push people to take actions that can become liberation, a way of rebirth in the cycle of life, where your actions are your own choice. Ending your life is the ideal way to stay connected to yourself. In Suicide Club, Sion Sono presents suicide as a panacea for all problems. The psychological and social problems of the film come together in a huge pile that anyone can sort through, but the final picture will be different for everyone. The influence of the mass media? The cult of suicide in Japan? The internet? The Werther effect? Family problems? The place of young people in a world where no one can find a connection with themselves? There are many reasons. Either way, Sion Sono ties them together into one big story quest and plays with the genre as he pleases, which sometimes doesn't always benefit the film and often confuses the viewer. Sion Sono's philosophy is also not always easy to understand, and Suicide Club can be interpreted in different ways.

In my opinion, Sion Sono pits all the conveniences of the modern world against the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun and turns Japan into a crazy world dancing in agony on the quivering back of a dragon. The suicide club is Japan itself, which is slowly killing itself in the hope of finding a way out. A way out of what? The bursting financial bubble? The cramped conditions of megacities? The lifetime employment system that offers no chance of re-employment? Isolation? Terrible social pressure? There are many reasons. The childlike innocence of the youth group Dessert drives people who have closed themselves off in their shells and have no idea how to find that very connection to despair. The Harajuku tribe (the Japanese version of hipsters) embodies the ugliness of the modern world and the younger generation through a glam rocker and his gang of thugs. A strange website with dots simply keeps track of its score dispassionately. It would be funny to see red dots in the shape of a circle against a white background. Shocked by economic collapse, a people whose old patriarchal foundations and group cohesion are becoming one big relic at the dawn of a new information age, suicide does indeed seem like a very tempting way out, especially when suicide is in the Japanese blood.

Early Sion Sono showed himself in all his glory. In Suicide Club, suicide as part of Japanese culture and mentality has taken on more tragic forms and is leading to the collapse of society. An original torture for the brain, a puzzle in the literal sense of the word. This film is worth digging into to understand it. The film, shot in the darkest tones, raises many questions but answers none of them.