Freytag pyramid: Suicide Club Movie

External conflict: String of suicides around Japan that apparently don't have a connection.

Internal conflict: Characters’ connection with themselves.

Exposition:

54 schoolgirls commit a mass suicide throwing themselves in front of the train at Shinjuku Station. Then, in the night in a Tokyo hospital two nurses jumps out of a window. In both scenes appears a mysterious white bag.

Incident Accident:

The detectives investigate the suicides and open the white bags; both had two rolls of pieces of human skin stitched together. They realize that the skin was removed from the victims before the suicides. They found a girl (Mitsuko) who had a boyfriend who commit suicide (one part of the roll of human skin was from him), but she don't have any injury in her skin.

Rising Action:

The police receives a call from a boy (who is clearly involved in this strange situation of suicides) warning them that on that evening at 19:30 will be another mass suicide in the same platform.

Climax:
However there was no other suicide in the train station but, detective Kuroda’s family dies (by suicide) and he gets another call from the same boy. The boy asks him if he is “connected with himself”. After the talk he realize his mistake and kill himself with a gun

Falling action:

Mitsuko tries to find why his boyfriend kill himself and she discover that the all-girls music idol group “Dessert” (which is very famous in Japan, especially with the teenagers) had a subliminal message in one poster, that message was the word “Suicide”

Turning point:

Mitsuko discovers all the decode messages related with the idol group "Dessert". She gets to the backstage of one of the concerts and she saw a group of children who ask her about the connection of herself, she told them that she has a connection with herself. Then she goes with the kids to a place where part of her skin (with a tattoo) is removed.



Moment of last suspense:

A new roll of skin is discovered by the police. Detective Shibusawa notices that one of the skin pieces is Mitsuko’s skin. He goes to the train station thinking she is going to commit a suicide.

Resolution:

Mitsuko doesn’t kill herself after all, she only gets on the train and leave the place. The same day the idol group “Dessert” announces their last performing and song.


In the movie we can see that all the people who commit suicide had a connection with themselves, we don't know exactly but it's suppose that when the idol group Dessert retired the suicides stopped.