Noriko's Dinner Table
Sep 23 2005
•3h 39m
•Drama, Thriller
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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Kazue Fukiishi
Noriko / Mitsuko
Tsugumi
Kumiko / Ueno Station 54
Yuriko Yoshitaka
Yuka / Yoko
Ken Mitsuishi
Tetsuzo Shimabara
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