The Killing Game
Overview
A middle-aged office worker, Masao Okada (Eiji Okada), discovers that his worsening illness is terminal cancer. Shaken and resigned, he meets a mysterious man, Suzuki (Haruo Tanaka), who knows every detail of his life. Also a dying patient, Suzuki proposes a “game”: two men with little time left will live in suspense, wondering when and how the other might kill, using paranoia as a way to escape the greater fear of death. Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe and based on a story by Kyotaro Nishimura, this short TV film from "Horror Theater Unbalance" blends psychological dread with social reflection. Alongside Okada’s fragile romance with nurse Akiko (Masumi Harukawa), the story introduces a nihilistic subplot where a reckless young couple (Renji Ishibashi among them) engage in a fatal dare that ends in self-destruction — echoing the era’s sense of emptiness and contrasting Okada’s struggle to find meaning in the face of death.
RATING
0.0
DIRECTOR
Yasuharu Hasebe
COUNTRY
Japan
RELEASE DATE
1973
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GENRES
Horror
TV Movie
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Part of
Horror Theater Unbalance
Includes: A Mummy’s Love, A Woman Who Warns of Death, The Killing Game, Graveyard of Masks, The Woman Who Calls for Corpses, The Woman Who Took the Local Paper, When the Night Breaks, The Cat Knew, The Morgue Murderer, Order of the Salaryman, Vampire Scream, Cursed Hand from the Graveyard, Spider Woman