Suicide Club (2001) on Netflix
R20011h 39mCrimeDramaHorrorMysteryThriller
When 54 schoolgirls jump in front of a subway train in Tokyo, Detective Kuroda hunts for what set off the suicides. Kiyoko, a hacker, points him to a website counting the dead.
- Netflix3.2/5
- IMDb6.5/1024,242 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes63%
Trailer
Plot summary
Fifty-four teenage girls in Tokyo jump in front of an oncoming train in a single mass suicide. Soon after, two nurses at a hospital leap from a window, and at both sites investigators recover rolls of human skin taken from the dead. Detectives Kuroda, Shibusawa, and Murata hear from a hacker, Kiyoko, about a website called Haikyo that marks each female victim with a red circle and each male with a white one. The deaths multiply across Japan. A man named Masa falls from a roof onto his girlfriend, Mitsuko, who is then questioned at the police station, where a search turns up the same butterfly tattoo found on the skin matching his back. A boy calls to warn of another mass suicide at the same platform; detectives mount a stake-out.
Cast
- Kôsuke Hamamotoas Genesis' Gang
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Suicide Club (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film explores the steady rise in suicides among Japanese children and youth since 1998 and the country's attitude to them: a train company charges the family of someone who dies by jumping in front of a train, and banks encourage debtors to take out life insurance policies on themselves.
