8. Suicide Club (2001)
Shion Sono's The Suicide Club is a very strange movie. The premise - thousands of teenage girls all over Tokyo committing mass suicides - is a weird one. Why are these girls who have everything to live for committing suicide? Are they even
really killing themselves? Is it murder? What is the connection between a website and a preteen band? The poor beleaguered detectives have to figure this all out. Suicide Cub is a bold and daring film. It is a testament to Japan and Japanese filmmakers that films that push the limits of cinema are so easily made in that country. The film has a lot of sociological things to say about Japanese youth and it begs the question, how do you stop the killer when it is inside the mind of the victim? At the end of it all, I just didn't get it (poop for brains) but it probably makes more of an impact in its native country. But this is one little disturbing head trip for you to lose yourself in.