Directed by: Yohei Fukuda
Written by: Mari Asato and Yoichi Minamikawa
Featuring: Hirofumi Araki, Ayaka Kikuchi, Haruka Nakagawa, Masashi Mikami
A group of 20-something adults including Hideaki (played by Hirofumi Araki) are kidnapped and placed inside a locked school room. Hands bound and in various states of coherency, they each quickly discover that they were all students at the same grade school years ago. It turns out that the four individuals also participated in, or were a witness to, the bullying of a female classmate named Mariko. Two hooded guards, armed with taser-like clubs, enter the room and force the group to watch a holographic video featuring their former grade school teacher. Under great duress, he explains to them that they have been gathered to participate in a version of a vicious grade school pastime called X Game.
The rules are simple: 13 different punishments are written on separate pieces of...
Written by: Mari Asato and Yoichi Minamikawa
Featuring: Hirofumi Araki, Ayaka Kikuchi, Haruka Nakagawa, Masashi Mikami
A group of 20-something adults including Hideaki (played by Hirofumi Araki) are kidnapped and placed inside a locked school room. Hands bound and in various states of coherency, they each quickly discover that they were all students at the same grade school years ago. It turns out that the four individuals also participated in, or were a witness to, the bullying of a female classmate named Mariko. Two hooded guards, armed with taser-like clubs, enter the room and force the group to watch a holographic video featuring their former grade school teacher. Under great duress, he explains to them that they have been gathered to participate in a version of a vicious grade school pastime called X Game.
The rules are simple: 13 different punishments are written on separate pieces of...
- 1/10/2013
- by Bradley Harding
- Planet Fury
Yusuke Yamada’s short story Kotsutsubo is getting a movie adaptation, and it will feature members of four different idol groups—Natsumi Matsubara of AKB48, Rurika Yokoyama of Idoling!!!, Rina Miyazaki of Super☆GiRLS, and Ai Shinozaki of AeLL.
Yamada is probably best known for writing the popular thriller “Real Onigokko”, which inspired a low-budget 2008 movie that was a surprise hit with the after school crowd. More recent adaptations of his work, Avatar and X Game, also featured up-and-coming idols like Ai Hashimoto, Ayaka Kikuchi, Haruka Nakagawa, and Aika Oota.
The new movie’s story involves a cursed funeral urn filled with ashes that can bring about people’s deaths. A socially inept female high school student named Eri (Matsubara) attempts to save her childhood friend, a popular girl named Mitsuko (Yokoyama), from a stalker teacher who’s using the urn to spread the curse.
J-horror veteran Akira Nagae (2channel no Noroi Gekijoban) will direct.
Yamada is probably best known for writing the popular thriller “Real Onigokko”, which inspired a low-budget 2008 movie that was a surprise hit with the after school crowd. More recent adaptations of his work, Avatar and X Game, also featured up-and-coming idols like Ai Hashimoto, Ayaka Kikuchi, Haruka Nakagawa, and Aika Oota.
The new movie’s story involves a cursed funeral urn filled with ashes that can bring about people’s deaths. A socially inept female high school student named Eri (Matsubara) attempts to save her childhood friend, a popular girl named Mitsuko (Yokoyama), from a stalker teacher who’s using the urn to spread the curse.
J-horror veteran Akira Nagae (2channel no Noroi Gekijoban) will direct.
- 4/9/2012
- Nippon Cinema
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