From the director of the J-horror satire Suicide Club comes this sequel of sorts, blending family drama with bloody mayhem. Teenaged Noriko Shimabara (Kazue Fukiishi) escapes her tiny provincial town and heads to Tokyo to meet up with a friend from Haikyo.com, an online forum for girls her age. The webmaster, Kumiko (Tsugumi), introduces Noriko to the rest of the community, which is really a cult that prostitutes girls for domestic roleplaying. All the while, a string of mass suicides is sweeping the nation. Growing increasingly worried, Noriko's little sister leaves for the big city to track down her troubled sibling. "Sono's new film has the same I'll-do-whatever-I-damn-well-feel-feels-right feel but is less formally disjunctive, more nuanced, more aesthetically assured, lighter...even in its grisly, blood-soaked climax" (Senses of Cinema).
- NTSC Region 1
- Widescreen
- Japanese with English Subtitles
- Introduction by the Director and More
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