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Suicide Bus(Movie, 1998)

Original title: "生きない" (Japanese/JA)
1h 41min | Genres: Comedy, Drama
Suicide BusRating: 3.0/5 (with 77 votes)
Ikinai (生きない, Ikinai) (transl. (I am) not living/alive/(I) will not live) (also known as Suicide Bus) is a 1998 Japanese comedy drama film directed by debutant Hiroshi Shimizu and starring Dankan and Nanako Okouchi. The film is about a group of bus passengers on a trip in Okinawa who want to commit suicide so that their families will receive their life insurances payouts despite their own financial issues. The film won awards at the Locarno Film Festival and at the Busan International Film Festival. ()
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About Suicide Bus

A young girl named Mitsuki receives a ticket for a bus tour from her uncle. The tour appears to be normal (expect that everyone appears to be quite sombre), but Mitsuki learns its true purpose: the other passengers and the tour manager have a suicide pact to send the bus over a cliff so their families can collect the insurance money.

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Additional Information

Production country: Japan
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)
Translated into 5 languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO)
Status: Released
Release date GR: 08/11/1998
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Zájezd"
"Ikinai"
Keywords: mass suicide, bus

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