2001: after years of raging in the Japanese underground with films at the crossroads of experimental cinema and performance, the Japanese Sono Sion made a breakthrough in the world of genre cinema by directing Suicide Club.
Shocking and powerful, having made an impression with its opening scene where fifty high school girls throw themselves hand in hand under a subway train in Tokyo, this film combines horror, thriller and psychological drama in a explosive cocktail, launching with a big blow the career of Sono Sion, who continues to write himself today, nearly thirty films later.
A completely new 4K Ultra HD Sono Sion box set
Two decades later, a beautiful reissue of Suicide Club in 4K Ultra HD will soon be unveiled in November at Spectrum Films, in a box set that will also bring together another remarkable horror film from Sono, Strange Circus ( new master), released in 2005. A 4K box that the publisher presents as “our first Sono Sion box”. Hoping for more 4K releases in the future, ideally with Suicide Club's brilliant and lesser-known sequel, Noriko's Dinner Table.
