This came a bit out of nowhere. Yet another Yusuke Yamada (Real Onigokko, Noboru Iguchi's upcoming Live) survival game novel adaptation. This one, however, looks interesting because:
1) the trailer is very interesting
2) director Eisuke Naito has a good track record of spicy films, including the debut splatter Prince of Milk, and the ballsy Let's Make the Teacher Have a Miscarriage Club.
3) rated R-15, which is higher than films of this kind usually. Remember, the Japanese pg-12 rating allows stuff like dead bodies decapitated with chainsaw, and R-15 a hell of a lot more.
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Guro Taku on Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:07 pm
I completely understand the R-15 rating now after having seen the film. Going I was expecting something much lighter than the seriously twisted and dark stuff that happens in this film. It's a pretty unique mix of candy-colored wierdness and some really uncomfortable content - gang rape, incest, torture and lots of splatter, the latter without any CGI shenenigans from what I recall. The film is also bereft of a protagonist you could (or would want to) identify with. Add the interesting narrative structure of flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks and you have a very good and highly recommended movie.
PS: Both PUZZLE and Noboru Iguchi's (quite bad) LIVE are based on novels by Yusuke Yamada. In one of the better jokes in LIVE, a woman asks if the events are some kind of government conspiracy because she was also involved in the "Puzzle Incident".
