One of the weirdest films I've ever seen, but really interesting to watch.

I really liked. After watching Noriko's Dinner Table I watched it again and loved it. Can't wait for the third one. Movies with a philosophical dimension like this one or simply awesome..

Excellent film, but not quite as good as the source material.

Some parts work; other parts less so.

So, it's a macabre mess of a plot about... Japanese pop culture, mass hypnotism (literal or not), isolation and loss of self/humanity, decline of family (a bit like Visitor Q), etc. Gets somewhat derailed by a weird Bowie/P-Orridge/Manson hybrid psycho subplot that only manages to make things even weirder. Don't attempt to unravel this one. Just let the red haze wash over you.

A complete mindfuck if viewed superficially, but on the occasion that it keeps coming to one's memory after the film is over, you realise what a masterpiece it was. The underlined sense of it all is brilliant, really.

I think it's safe to say this movie is really militant satire, dressed in horror clothes. I don't know exactly what I just watched but it intrigued me, anyway. I definitely get a theme of conformity. It's true that the production values are less than stellar but there are some genuinely disturbing scenes and just trying to figure out the puzzle (ha!) is fun in itself. Seems more like a "message over plot" type of movie and that's fine.

I think this movie has something to do with the rising age gap in Japanese culture, herd mentality, disillusionment and the loss of individualism...or something. I'm not quite sure what was up with the glam rock psychopath, either. ARE YOU CONNECTED TO YOURSELF?

An erratic work whose turns become more and more fascinatingly vaguer, and feels similar to the superior 6 part mini-series MPD Psycho by Takashi Miike. It is a fascinating and engaging watch, but its value is not really any deep themes, which are there and probably resonate much more for its original Japanese audience, but as an abstract journey through the country's pop culture and its culture on suicide.

This movie is essentially getting 60 points for two scenes: one that is the most violent hard to watch thing I've seen in a movie and another that is one of the most bizarre scenes I've yet to see. Th rest kind of sucks (especially the ending).

Has a handful of impressive scenes, but that's about the only reason to watch this film. Although it confronts a couple of big themes in today's society, like peer pressure, the digital revolution, pop culture, the irrational wish to be famous, the human condition and, of course, suicide, it doesn't improve the film, as it tries to melt them them into one neat storyline, but it only makes it harder for the viewer to follow, as he keeps on getting pulled and pushed from one big theme to another.

Not too bad but I think that the message and plot is a bit lost in translation.

Dziwny, ale bardzo intrygujacy.

because dead

and the award for 'best acting by a moving train' goes to...

A LOT of suicides occur and the police are baffled as to why. And so is the viewer, we get the notion that it has something to do with an annoying pre-teen girl band, but in the end the ending could have been better, seems like they just didn't know what to do after the girl finds out the truth. It appears the movie tries to tell us something about the way we live, but as a norwegian it's not that close to home. But still a good look into what drives the everyday japanese.

Maybe the plot is a lot better in Japanese.

It has an good premise, themes, and execution until the last fourth, where it goes too far into it's weirdness to try to have a stronger ending.

A really well put together movie. It's hard to understand unless you understand the Japanese culture. As I've been told a lot of it is about how important Japanese youth is. I know is seems crazy, but yeah. Personally, I feel that it's about finding yourself and finding yourself in others.

I felt much was being lost on me as I watched it, but it's has it's moments

Ooh, it's Japanese! That's the only reason anyone could enjoy this rubbish. For Japanophiles only. See Uzumaki instead.

So bad you won't stop laughing