A story about a mass suicide of 54 girls and it is a J-horror film back in 2001.
In Tokyo on May 27, a group of 54 teenage schoolgirls committed mass suicide by throwing themselves in front of an oncoming train. Shortly after the incident, located at a hospital, two nurses committed suicide by jumping out the window. At both locations, rolls of flesh were found and the missing skin matches the bodies found on both locations.
This resulted the engagement of three detectives (Kuroda, Shibusawa and Murata), they were notified by a hacker by the name Kiyoko of the link between the suicides and a webpage that shows the number of suicides as red and white circles.
A day after on May 28 in a high school, a group of students jumped off the roof during their lunch break, sending the city and the detectives in search of the suicide club. Soon after on May 29, the suicide boom had spread all over Japan.
Mitsuko was on her way home, when she was hit by her boyfriend, Masa. Due to wherever reason, he threw himself off a roof and this results to Mitsuko being taken to the police station for questioning. During a strip-search at the station, Mitsuko was discovered to have a butterfly tattoo.
On May 30, the police received a call from a boy who warns that on that evening at 7:30, another mass suicide will take place at the same platform. The detectives organize a stake-out in order to prevent the event, but there is no suicide. Meanwhile, individual and smaller-scale group suicides continue all over Japan, claiming many lives, including Kuroda's entire family. Kuroda receives a call from the boy who warned them about the second suicide wave, and upon the conversation's conclusion Kuroda shoots himself.
Meanwhile, Kiyoko is caught by a group led by a costumed man named Genesis whose hideout is a small subterranean bowling alley, where he resides with four glam-rock cohorts. During her capture, Genesis performs a song while a girl in a white sack is brutally raped and killed by one of the henchmen right in front of them. At Genesis' lair, Kiyoko e-mails the authorities information about her whereabouts. The police arrest him, and it is assumed the "Suicide Club" is caught.
On June 1, Mitsuko goes to her boyfriend's home to return his helmet, where she notices the Dessart posters on the wall and recognizes a pattern which corresponds to the letters on a telephone keypad and spells the word "suicide". Soon, the boy from earlier calls her to tell her there is no "Suicide Club" and to invite her to a secret concert.
On June 2, Mitsuko sneaks into the backstage area, where she wanders onto a stage. She sees a group of children in the audience, who ask her a series of questions. Mitsuko impresses the children, so they take her to a room where a strip from her skin is shaved off, where the butterfly tattoo is.
A new roll of skin ends up with the police, and detective Shibusawa recognizes the strip from Mitsuko's tattoo. That evening he sees Mitsuko as she is standing at the train station and grabs her hand but she pulls away. She stares at Shibusawa as the train pulls into the station and once she boards the train. As the train pulls out of the station the ending credits segment begins, in which Dessart announce their group's disbandment and offer appreciation toward their fan's loyal support before proceeding to perform their final song.
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