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'Now an iconic image of contemporary horror and dread, Suicide Club begins with an impossibly cheerful and gruesome mass suicide. On a seemingly normal day on the Tokyo subway, 54 schoolgirls join hands, recite a rhyme and jump in front of an ongoing train. The rest of the film is an investigation into this mass suicide, as well as a series of others committed by young people across the country. The investigation leads to a strange website, a zany cult and some very weird people. Probably the best entry point in Sono's filmography as it features his darkest and lightest moments, the film effortlessly shifts from the macabre to the absurd from one sequence to the next. It even features a dark and strangely playful musical, the first of many in his career.' Sound on Sight