Noriko's Dinner Table
The family that eats together stays together.
DramaThrillerHorrorsuicideidentityrunawaycultwebsiteinternettokyo, japanjapanese familyrunaway teencommunicationteen runawayrental family
A deeply unsettling psychological thriller that uses internet culture and fractured family bonds to explore alienation, identity, and the contagion of despair.
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's family circle, which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 high school girls.
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