As the Gods Will (2014)
神さまの言うとおり
Oh my God, please return my tedious everyday.
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As the Gods Will rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb6.3/10· 9K votes
Rotten Tomatoes57%
TMDb7.127/10· 567 votesWith 57% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.3/10 on IMDb, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About As the Gods Will
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.
Cast of As the Gods Will
Sota Fukushi
as Takahata Shun
Ryunosuke Kamiki
as Amaya Takeru
Hirona Yamazaki
as Akimoto Ichika
Mio Yuki
as Takase Shouko
Jingi Irie
as Oku Eiji
Shota Sometani
as Satake
Nao Omori
as Takumi
Nijiro Murakami
as Kikkawa Haruhiko
Dori Sakurada
as Class President
Lily Franky
as Homeless Man
Atsuko Maeda
as Maneki-neko (voice)
Ryûhei Ueshima
as Kokeshi (voice)
As the Gods Will facts
- Original title
- 神さまの言うとおり
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Death game premise delivers shocking moments
- •Comedy horror hybrid finds unique tone
- •High school setting grounds the chaos
What the audience disliked
- •Tonal shifts between comedy and horror jar
- •Game logic sometimes feels arbitrary
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