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X Game

2010 · 119 min

A grim, claustrophobic ordeal that turns schoolyard cruelty into drawn-out, nerve-shredding punishment, leaving you tense and unsettled.

Overview
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.
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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • revenge
  • guilt
  • trauma
  • violence
  • isolation
Places
  • school
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror8
Humour1
Realism6
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
horror
Directed by
Yôhei Fukuda
Written by
Mari Asato, Yôichi Minamikawa
Starring
Kazuyuki Aijima, Hirofumi Araki, Shota Chiyo, Meguru Katô, Ayaka Kikuchi, Masashi Mikami, Shingo Tsurumi, Haruka Nakagawa
Runtime
119 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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