Complete story recap and ending breakdown for the cult Japanese death-game thriller As the Gods Will (2014), directed by Takashi Miike.
Bored high schooler Shun Takahata and students across Japan are forced to participate in a series of lethal traditional children's games orchestrated by mysterious floating cubes. Watch the breakdown of every deadly game, the surviving students, and the chilling final twist.
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Bored high schooler Shun Takahata and students across Japan are forced to participate in a series of lethal traditional children's games orchestrated by mysterious floating cubes. Watch the breakdown of every deadly game, the surviving students, and the chilling final twist.
#AsTheGodsWill #AsTheGodsWillRecap #MovieRecap #DeathGame #SquidGameVibes #SurvivalHorror #JapaneseCinema #EndingExplained #HorrorMovies #FilmBreakdown #MovieExplained
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00:00A group of students are forced to play a death game without knowing whose game it is, why or how.
00:06Alright, I'll play. That's why today on the summarizer, As the Gods Will.
00:11This is the story of Shun, but there's no time for anything because a Daruma entered the school
00:17and wants to play a game. Apparently, if you move and that weird thing sees you, your head explodes,
00:23and though they try to escape, they also blow up. The only calm one is Sataki,
00:28who tells them they must understand what's going on and explains that this thing represents Daruma-san,
00:34the doll of death. In that moment, they realize that there's a button on the back and if they press
00:39it,
00:40the game ends. However, this guy tries, but he explodes, and then we see that there's also a
00:45timer so they must hurry up. Seconds pass and everyone tries, but they explode until only Sataki
00:51is left. Few seconds left, Sataki tells him to boost with his back and Shun jumps, flies, and at the
00:57last second turns it off. At the end, Daruma tells him that the game is over and everyone is happy.
01:08Not cool. Not cool! Well, not everyone happy because at that moment, Sataki explodes,
01:15and here we realize that only the one who presses the button survives, so only Shun won. Now we go
01:21back a few minutes earlier, here we meet Achika, the one that Shun likes, and Amaya, the one who beats
01:28everyone in the school pointlessly. In the class, everything was normal until his teacher's head
01:33exploded and Daruma appeared. Then happened what we already saw, and now Daruma tells Shun that he is
01:39a mouse and that the cat is coming. At that moment, Achika arrives, who was the one who pressed the
01:44button
01:45in her room, and though they try to call the police, there's no signal and Daruma keeps repeating that
01:50the cat is coming. In a moment, all the doors are closed until they open one where the gym is
01:55and
01:56some are disguised as mice. What the hell happened here? Achika reads that if they want to get out of
02:01there, they have to bell the cat. A cat that seems harmless. There everyone wants to escape, but the cat
02:10starts to eat them all. At that moment, they see the bell and remember what they read, so they have
02:15to put it there and only have nine minutes. Achika passes it to a guy who was a basketball player
02:21and
02:21the ball is going to go in and everything is going to end. At the end, the cat kills the
02:29basketball
02:29player and at one point Shun realized that he's only eating the ones with the costume, so they all take
02:35it off and the cat doesn't do anything, but a few seconds later it attacks them again because
02:40it's hungry. The bell has three minutes left and when the cat is about to eat Achika, he saves her
02:45because he put on the disguise to distract him. At that moment, the cat starts to talk to him.
02:52He tells him that his back itches and he can't sleep, so he realizes that he can understand him
02:57because he's wearing the disguise. He climbs up and everyone starts scratching him and in the end,
03:03he falls asleep. But when they go to put the bell on him, they all start to fight because they
03:07think
03:07that only the one who puts it on will survive. This wakes up the cat and he attacks them again.
03:12At one point, Achika and Shun appear with two balls. One is the rattle and the other is a ball.
03:17The cat doesn't know where to look but realizes that Shun is carrying the ball. Achika throws hers
03:22and the cat attacks her but the cat dodges it. Shun throws his which is the one with the bell
03:27and the cat doesn't do anything and he goes in. But out of nowhere, Amaya appears and puts the rattle
03:36and that's how the game ends. But the cat tells him that the survivors are Amaya, Shun and Achika.
03:43Only three people can live and Amaya gets rid of the others. At that moment, the cat takes out a
03:48smoke
03:48and they faint. On the news, we are told that in all the schools in the world, there's some kind
03:53of
03:53terrorist attack. Millions of students have died and we see that there's a cube floating above the
03:58city. But not only that, there are also cubes all over the world and inside are all the students who
04:04survived. Elsewhere, we see a professor who says that this is not a terrorist attack but it is an
04:09alien one because it is further away from human knowledge. Now we see Takumi, who we don't know
04:15what he's doing but later is going to be important. Oh, okay. In the cube, Shun wakes up and is
04:21in the
04:21same room as Shoko, one of her friends that she hadn't seen for years because she changed schools.
04:26Taira and Tayoka are also there and at that moment a text appears, a key to open the door
04:32and some Kokeshi's dolls arrive because it's time for the next game. The new game consists of singing
04:38and when the song ends, they have 10 seconds to guess who is in the back and if they fail,
04:43they will be killed. So the first one is Taira but he gets nervous. They tell him thanks for
04:48participating and with their lightning, they give him a paralysis and then kill him. The same thing
04:53happens with Tayoka and finally Shun is going to play. At the end, not sure how, he guesses who is
04:59in the back, the Kokeshi's explode and a key appears. When they get out of there, also appears Yukio that
05:05was being chased by another Kokeshi. At that moment, they hear screams, this girl who's also being chased
05:11appears and now we meet Oku and Maida. They found a timer to put the keys in and they all
05:16get there
05:17but they realize they only have four keys and they need seven. But at that moment, three keys appear
05:22and Amaya also appears who gets rid of his partner because he was only missing one. The seven put the
05:28keys before the counter runs out, the game is over and now they have to put on their clothes so
05:33they
05:33just happen to appear there and they have to get in through that hole. Outside, everyone is watching
05:38everything and the professor still thinks they're aliens but the important thing here is that the
05:43homeless man, remember him. The seven arrive at a snow palace and at that moment, a giant bear arrives.
05:49He tells them that he's going to ask them questions and the game ends if they all tell him the
05:54truth
05:54but the only rule is not to lie to him or he will sacrifice them. The first question is, what
06:00is your
06:00favorite food? Everyone says theirs but the bear gets angry because someone lied to him so they have two
06:06minutes to give him the liar or he's going to kill everyone. The seven start arguing about the food
06:11but in the end, they blame Yukio because his favorite food is parsley, a strange food for everyone
06:17so the bear kills him. The next question is whether anyone likes Shun. The men say no, Amaya tells him
06:25she hardly speaks to him but yes, a chica has known him since she was a kid and has feelings
06:30for him
06:31so she says yes too and lastly, Shoko likes him too. There, the bear gets mad once again because
06:37someone lied to him again and they have two minutes to turn the liar in. Here, the bear tells them
06:42that
06:42this became a kinda among us because between them is an imposter who works for him and is lying to
06:49kill everyone. I don't quite know why they decided Shoko because she had no relationship with Shun and
06:55though they try to defend her, in the end, they blame Shoko. She tells him that she really loves him
07:01but the bear kills her. When the next question goes, Shun already knows who the real imposter is.
07:06The imposter is the bear because when he saw Shoko's blood, he realized that he is not really a white
07:12bear. The demon lied. He attacks them but falls into the water and starts to burn because apparently he
07:19is a bear with a black heart, like a demon. A what? A shit demon? The game ends and the
07:25five survive.
07:26Outside, these people are happy and we also see Takumi with blood again and we still don't know what
07:31he does in the movie. Then the five appear in a temple. At that moment, a matryoshka arrived and they
07:37tell him that this is the final game. The game is kick the can. Someone is going to be the
07:43demon,
07:43that means the one who searches and will take the can and bring it down to the circle. Everyone has
07:48to hide from him. When the demon comes down, he will look for everyone and if he finds someone
07:53and sees his face, he will say his name while he kicks the can. And at the end, he will
07:58lock them
07:59in that cell. But if someone kicks it before the demon touches it, it will save everyone in the cell.
08:04But it is not so easy because if you kick it, the can explodes. That is, to save those in
08:09the cell,
08:10someone must sacrifice himself. The game ends when the demon catches three people or when someone
08:15kicks the can. So have fun. The one who gets to be the demon is Amaya. Everyone goes to hide.
08:21Maida and Oku know they have time to hide. But at that moment, Amaya arrives and catches them.
08:27Only two more to go and he goes up for Shun and Achika. But as they try to go down,
08:32he catches Achika and only Shun is left. They only have until the sun goes down. Amaya yells at him
08:39that he can leave because he already caught three and only they are going to live because they are
08:44God's chosen ones. But Achika tells him not to believe him because Amaya will betray him.
08:49Amaya tells him to trust him and if he comes out but with an armor. And we remember the rule
08:54of the
08:54demon can only say his name if he sees his face. Amaya goes over and takes it off. But when
09:00he goes
09:00to touch the can, he realizes he tied it with a chain. Shun tells her that there's a reason he
09:06put on
09:06the armor and throws himself off the cliff. Amaya tries not to fall. He starts to climb the chain
09:12with the armor and we realize that Shun took it off as a distraction. Now he just has to kick
09:17the
09:17can. Achika doesn't want him to do it but he's going to do it for his friends who died. Amaya
09:23finishes
09:23pulling it up and he goes to kick it but Shun kicks it and prepares for the explosion but in
09:28the end
09:28nothing happens. The sun goes down and the game ends. The Matryoshka tells them that the winner
09:34is Shun for saving everyone and that the explosion of the can was alive. And though Amaya lost, no one
09:40is going to die and the celebration begins because finally everything is over. The Matryoshka gives
09:46them some ice cream as a reward and everyone is happy. Shun asks Achika out. Amaya is disappointed how
09:52everything ended but at that moment Achika sees something and gets strange. Shun sees that the
09:59shovel says you live and here the Matryoshka tells them that to get here they need many skills but the
10:05last one was luck. Achika tells him that she really wanted to date him but his paddle says you die
10:11and
10:11says goodbye. Amaya got lucky and goes to live at which point the others are attacked with lightning
10:16bolts that disintegrate them and that's how Shun was left with no one. Now he wonders what this is and
10:22why this is happening. The two are teleported up the cube and the gods tell them they are the winners.
10:28All the people celebrate and somewhere else Takumi decides to leave his house because he is going to
10:33save the world. People scream sons of god because they overcame everything. Amaya likes this but Shun
10:40says god doesn't exist and one of the Matryoshka dolls corrects him and suggests that those deadly games
10:46would lead them to god as she shows him a homeless man who was also an observer of those games.
10:52and that leaves us ready for a second part. That was as the gods will. Comment which series or
10:58movies you'd like me to summarize for future videos. See you later. Okay. Bye.