Plot Summary
After a childhood friend's suicide, Hideaki (Hirofumi Araki, “Prince of Tennis”) 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. A twisty, horror/mystery ‘mash-up’ peppered with dark humor and inventive gore, director Yôhei Fukuda’s (of UK-banned “Grotesque”) shows how revenge is a dish best served cold and not very sweet – Japanese style.
Customer Reviews
Good God, this movie was awesome!
I have always wanted to see a horror movie where bullies get what they deserve, and this movie delivers in spades. It starts out as a simple horror movie with a masked assailant keeping some student trapped in a classroom. What he makes them do in order to gain their freedom, whoever, was so disturbing, it just goes to show that bullies ultimately all get what’s coming to them, in one form or another. I didn’t feel sorry for a single one, and really wanted to see just how gruesome the film ultimately ended up being. A really fun, well-made movie. Watch it for the pure “joy” of it all!
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