Japan Synopsis
神さまの言うとおり
“Oh my God, please return my tedious everyday.”
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.
The 2013–2015 Japan Window
546 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. As the Gods Will sits at position #215.
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The 2010s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when As the Gods Will premiered. 1769 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #1,728 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (62nd percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.3 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Thriller productions specifically: #42 of 324 (top 13%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Toho Pictures, OLM, TOHO, dentsu, Kodansha |
| Runtime | 1h 57m |
| Release Date | November 15, 2014 |
| IMDb | tt3354222 |