{"id":12312,"date":"2017-12-11T23:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T05:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12312"},"modified":"2017-12-11T23:34:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T05:34:02","slug":"as-the-gods-will-2014-takashi-miike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12312","title":{"rendered":"As The Gods Will (2014, Takashi Miike)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Live-action Teen Cartoon Miike gets mixed-up with Bloody Horror Miike.  Starts off in a <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7464\">Battle Royale<\/a><\/em> classroom, a fake-looking CG toy playing a game of freeze-or-die with the terrified suit-wearing students, until sole survivor Shun (S\u00f4ta Fukushi of <em>Blade of the Immortal<\/em>) pushes the button on its back.  He meets up with the survivors from other classes for the next challenge, basketball vs. a giant cat in the gym, where we meet ruthless brown-haired Amaya (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/181\">The Great Yokai War<\/a><\/em> star Ry\u00fbnosuke Kamiki), then Shun is paired with his ex Takase for a round-robin guessing game, then she&#8217;s killed in the next round, in which a truth-obsessed polar bear gets them to turn on each other.  Finally a rooftop-sunset game of kick-the-can pits Shun against the transparently evil Amaya.  All this is taking place inside a giant alien cube hovering over major cities, which has kidnapped and murdered all the country&#8217;s children in order to teach a valuable lesson spoken by a wise old dude at the very end, which I spaced out and didn&#8217;t pay attention to.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/godswill1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/godswill2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image17\/godswill3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, Live-action Teen Cartoon Miike gets mixed-up with Bloody Horror Miike. Starts off in a Battle Royale classroom, a fake-looking CG toy playing a game of freeze-or-die with the terrified suit-wearing students, until sole survivor Shun (S\u00f4ta Fukushi of Blade of the Immortal) pushes the button on its back. He meets up with the survivors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,712,54,104],"class_list":["post-12312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-aliens","tag-horror","tag-takashi-miike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12362,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions\/12362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}