Noriko's Dinner Table (2005) on Netflix
Noriko Shimabara, seventeen, is unsatisfied with her small-town life in Toyokawa and hopes to move to Tokyo. She finds Haikyo, a website for teenagers, and runs away to Tokyo.
- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb7.0/105,498 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes64%
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Plot summary
In Toyokawa, Noriko Shimabara lives with her father Tetsuzo, her mother Taeko and her younger sister Yuka. The seventeen-year-old is shy and wants to move to Tokyo, especially after she hears that Mikan, a childhood friend, now works as an idol on her own, while Tetsuzo hopes she will enroll at a local university after high school. Noriko finds the site Haikyo, whose name means ruins, where teenagers from Japan write to one another, and the people she meets there urge her on. She leaves home for Tokyo, and Kumiko, the twenty-five-year-old behind the screen name Ueno Station 54, meets her at locker 54 in Ueno Station. Kumiko brings her into a family circle that includes two grandparents.
Cast
- Hanako Onukias Midnight
- Chihiro Abeas Long Neck
