As the Gods Will

2014 [JAPANESE]

Action / Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 9506 9.5K

japan based on manga game high school student japanese high school death game

Plot summary

High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.

Director

Takashi Miike Photo
Takashi Miike

Top cast

Katsuhiro Higo Photo
Katsuhiro Higo as Kokeshi Taro
Sôta Fukushi Photo
Sôta Fukushi as Shun Takahata
Etsuko Kozakura Photo
Etsuko Kozakura as Matryoshka Doll
Nijirô Murakami Photo
Nijirô Murakami
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1004.68 MB
1280*534
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
1 hr 57 min
Seeds 8
1.88 GB
1920*800
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
1 hr 57 min
Seeds 20

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by krusader88 6 / 10

The ending is a massive downer

I watched this film without reading the manga prior. I've watched some of Miike's ultraviolent movies before this but going in forward, i've not set any expections for this movie.I'd like to mention the positive things first. I love Miike's violent movies. I think he's the best director for this genre, and there are a lot of em expecially in the first half of the movie. However, the black comedy moments seemed to shine the most in this film. I remembered laughing out loud in a few scenes in this movie and that's an impressive feat.That's all the about the good stuff, unfortunately. The film was marred by a lot of terrible aspects. One of them was the antagonist. I believe it's a bad casting overall. The antagonist was portrayed as edgy and the actor seemed to hate this role. It was obvious he tried too hard and it ended up being cringe thorughout the film.The absolute worst of this film is definitely the ending. It lead to more questions and plot holes, leaving all the viewers begging for answers. Let's just say it's the slimiest, hairiest balls that was shoved on your face. You'll get me when you get there.
Reviewed by ramisaakter 2 / 10

So creepy ://

I don't like the movie from starting to end. There is character development before the game begins. Even in the game, there weren't any. Seriously, we don't know anything about these characters besides their names. Besides that the games/task were so weird. And virtual look awful. One thing, I have found from this movie is the first task is later adapted in Korean Drama named ''Squid Game'' and it is beautifully executed.I even don't understand the ending, what's the point of it? I mean,at least, it should be shown who is behind all this? But the movie ends :)
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