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
A trailer is now out for Ichiro Kita‘s upcoming film Hoshizuna no Shima no Chiisana Tenshi: Mermaid Smile. Kita himself is originally from Tokyo, but since forming his own film company in 1996, he’s tended to make movies about surfing or the sea in general; usually with exceedingly happy circumstances and impossibly long titles.
His latest work is set on Taketomi Island in Okinawa during an economic downturn. In spite of the beautiful sea and landscape, lack of recent tourism business has led to financial problems and a shortage of doctors on the island. One day while scouting sightseeing locations to boost tourism, Koichi (Masashi Mikami) and his younger brother Shunichi (Tetsuya Makita) discover a girl (Riho Iida) collapsed on the beach. She takes a job at their parents’ inn where her hard work and mysterious ability to heal the sick gain her a reputation throughout the island, eventually...
His latest work is set on Taketomi Island in Okinawa during an economic downturn. In spite of the beautiful sea and landscape, lack of recent tourism business has led to financial problems and a shortage of doctors on the island. One day while scouting sightseeing locations to boost tourism, Koichi (Masashi Mikami) and his younger brother Shunichi (Tetsuya Makita) discover a girl (Riho Iida) collapsed on the beach. She takes a job at their parents’ inn where her hard work and mysterious ability to heal the sick gain her a reputation throughout the island, eventually...
- 5/23/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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