Kamisama no iu tōri
is a 2014 Japanese black comedy supernatural horror film directed by Takashi Miike. It is based on the first arc of the manga series of the same name by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Akeji Fujimura. Funimation will release the film in the United States.
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 around and sees anyone moving then those students' heads will explode. Everyone in the class except Shun dies in this first game.
Cast
More details
| author | Hiroyuki Yatsu |
|---|---|
| director | Takashi Miike |
| editor | Kenji Yamashita |
| genre | comedy horror live-action science fiction |
| keywords | crush daruma doll daruma-san ga koronda deadly game devil end force game high school student hikikomori kagome kagome kick the can kill kokeshi maneki-neko matryoshka doll telekinesis their way video game |
| musicBy | Kōji Endō |
| nomination | IFFR audience award |
| producer | Hisashi Usui Misako Saka Shigeji Maeda Yûsuke Ishiguro |
| productionCompany | Toho |
| theme | action black comedy death japanese japanese horror |