Kamisama no Iu Tôri (2014)
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Duration: 117 minuten
Alternative titles: As the Gods Will / 神さまの言うとおり
Country:
Japan
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hirona Yamazaki and Sota Fukushi
IMDb score:
6,3 (9.569)
Releasedate: 15 November 2014
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Kamisama no Iu Tôri plot
"Oh my God, please return my tedious everyday."
Shun Takahata is an ordinary high school student with a dull life. His bosom friend has been Ichika Akimoto for years. One day, a teacher's head explodes in the classroom. Suddenly, Shun and his friends find themselves in a game of life and death without knowing who, how and why.
Actors and actresses
Takahata Shun
Amaya Takeru
Akimoto Ichika
Takase Shouko
Oku Eiji
Satake
Takumi
Kikkawa Haruhiko
Class President
Homeless Man
Reviews & comments
Noodless
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- 10053 messages
- 6185 votes
Weird movie that also opens crazy with game the Daruma doll. Deliciously bloody!
The games with the giant cat and Kokeshi game are the strongest parts of the movie. The nursery rhyme bambo cage, little bird in a cag in the Kokeshi game was very entertaining. 
Visually it looked fine up until then. But then the film gradually sags. I already liked the game with the polar bear a bit less, but especially the Matroesjka game was a disappointment. Long and boring in terms of design. The film scores high here, but I expected more. 5/10
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UmbraVitae
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- 4370 messages
- 4078 votes
Top entertainment from those wonderful Japanese 
Strangely enough I hadn't seen this one yet, but since I've seen work before, I could really appreciate Takashi Miike's work, with Ichi at the forefront, but many other delicious horror, action. The film contains so much that I like and it's that typical Japanese thing that's a big plus. This one definitely deserves a big 8/10.
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remorz
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- 2498 messages
- 2750 votes
I think it's been over five years since I last saw a Miike film. And what a joyful reunion it is. As The Gods Will is a mix of Sono's Tag / Riaru Onigokko (2015) and the classic Batoru Rowaiaru (2000) and gets straight to the point: here too, young schoolchildren are forced to take part in a gruesome game of life and death. During each part, they have to solve (children's) riddles within a certain time in order to survive, which of course conjures up associations with the more recent Squid Game / Ojing-eo Geim (2021 - 2025). However, it remains rather uncertain how they ended up in this situation, or what orchestrating entity is behind these sadistic practices.
Instead, the stylized bloodshed, childish nature of the riddles, and cartoonish design of the opponents often work more to elicit laughs than to come across as gruesome or scary - and actually that only benefits the film's entertainment. However, the film does slacken off when the running time starts to drag a bit and the ending (creatively speaking) actually ends on a bit of a minor note. The fact that the facts remain ambiguous is not so much the problem (although that anonymous, isolated computer guy seems to know more about it), the film does fail to put a convincing period under the exclamation mark. In my opinion, something better could have been conjured up in terms of revelation.
Nevertheless a very entertaining Miike, who always comes up with a refreshing mix of film fun and oddities. 3.5*
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