X Game
– After a childhood friend's suicide, Hideaki and his former classmates reunite to pay their respects...
After a childhood friend's suicide, Hideaki and his former classmates reunite to pay their respects. Soon after, a DVD, marked X arrives revealing a man being tortured, triggering a flashback in Hideaki, reminding him of witnessing a schoolmate being subjected to humiliating batsu (punishment) games. One evening, Hideaki is kidnapped and when he awakens the next day, he discovers he is in a recreation of his old school-room, along with his fellow classmates. Trapped and held captive by mysterious hooded figures, each of them must now play a brutally violent, version of the punishment game, in order to survive.
18 Sep 2010
Japanese
Yôhei Fukuda
Mari Asato (screenplay), Yôichi Minamikawa (screenplay), Yûsuke Yamada (novel)
Kazuyuki Aijima, Hirofumi Araki, Shôta Chiyo, Meguru Katô
Hideaki and his 6th grade classmates Takeshi, Chie and Tetsuya, wake up to find themselves in their old elementary school after the suicide of their teacher. They are forced to torture one another by playing X Game, which was created by Takeshi to bully a girl named Mariko.