All seniors at a high school stay together at a camp, including student Chinatsu. On their first day, the home room teacher announces that all the students must play the card game "Old Maid". In order to reverse the declining academic abilities of its younger generation, the Japanese government planned this camping program. In this card game, the students that lose will meet their deaths.
Acting
Rie Kitahara's panic feels genuinely unhinged.
Direction
Watanabe makes a card game feel like Russian roulette.
Production
Cheesy camp setting clashes perfectly with the horror.
Director
Takafumi Watanabe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's 2010s 'death game' boom alongside Gantz and Alice in Borderland, reflecting anxieties about youth unemployment and educational pressure.
Rie Kitahara was an AKB48 member at filming; her fans were shocked by the grim departure from idol image.
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