As the Gods Will (film)
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| Directed by | Takashi Miike |
| Produced by |
Yûsuke Ishiguro Shigeji Maeda Misako Saka Hisashi Usui |
| Screenplay by | Hiroyuki Yatsu |
| Based on |
Kami-sama no Iu Toori by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Akeji Fujimura |
| Starring |
Hideaki Itō Takayuki Yamada Mitsuru Fukikoshi |
| Music by | Kōji Endō |
| Cinematography | Nobuyasu Kita |
| Edited by | Kenji Yamashita |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
As the Gods Will (Kami-sama no Iu Toori (神さまの言うとおり)) is a 2014 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Takashi Miike. It is based on the first arc of the manga series Kami-sama no Iu Toori by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Akeji Fujimura.
Plot
High school student Shun Takahata spends much of his time playing violent video games. One morning at school he whines that his life is completely boring but then he suddenly finds himself forced to participate in a game of Daruma-san ga koronda with death as the penalty for losing. When the Daruma doll turns toward the blackboard it exposes a button on its back that the students can attempt to press to end the game but if the doll spins back round and sees anyone moving then those students' heads will explode. Everyone in the class but Shun dies in this first game.
After the game Shun finds his childhood friend Ichika and they make their way to the school gym. There they play a game where students dressed as mice attempt to throw a bell into a hoop attached to the collar of a giant cat doll. Those who miss are killed. Amaya wins this challenge and enables the students to move on to the next challenge in a giant ice cube hovering over Tokyo. These cubes are hovering over many of the world's cities and the games are being broadcast to the public with the survivors being dubbed "God's children".
Shun must keep winning a series of different deadly children's games in order to protect himself and Ichika. He has no knowledge of who is behind the games or what their ultimate purpose is. Meanwhile, a troubled classmate named Takeru seems to revel in the opportunity to cause the death of other students.
Cast
- Shōta Sometani as Satake
- Takayuki Yamada as Tetsuro Shibahara
- Lily Frankie as homeless person
- Nao Ohmori as Takumi
- Sōta Fukushi as Shun Takahata
- Atsuko Maeda as beckoning cat (voice)
- Mio Yûki as Shoko Takase
- Hirona Yamazaki as Ichika Akimoto
- Jingi Irie as Oku Eiji
- Rena Shimura
- Rima Matsuda
Box office
The film earned $1.5 million domestically in Japan in its first weekend in November.[2]
References
- ↑ Jay Weissberg. "‘As the Gods Will’ Review: Takashi Miike’s Latest Splatterfest | Variety". variety.com. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
- ↑ http://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/film-review-as-the-gods-will-1201407493/