The puzzle turns out to be a life-threatening "philosopher's puzzle" created by the mysterious group P.O.G. He and his friend Nonoha find an "unsolvable puzzle" near their school. We are merely exploring different corners.Kaito, a puzzle-loving high school freshman, is selected as a candidate for "Phi Brain". The devotee will recognize in God's Puzzle's obsession with the creation, annihilation and meaning of life a continuation of the questions posed in earlier films by the director", concluding that "this is still the familiar Miike universe.
Pedro Morata of Asian Movie Pulse wrote that the film offers "a full spectacle worthy of the best films of natural disasters" as well as "a well-constructed visual presentation, with particularly well-designed frames", ultimately finding that it is "Definitely worth watching." Īuthor Tom Mes of Midnight Eye acknowledges that Miike's "films can be hit and miss" and that "business is still as usual", but states that, "as is so often the case with a Miike film, a closer look proves to be most rewarding. Rob Nelson of writes, "Intermittently bizarre rather than thoroughly so, the pic plays by CG-powered rules of a smart-kids-save-the-world actioner, adding Miike’s wacky narrative digressions and a bit of animation to mostly enjoyable effect." He complains that "Miike’s most conventional pic is least convincing in its serious moments, as would-be stimulating debates of God’s existence ring hollow" but writes that "pic’s cinematography - in 35mm, with short India-set scenes on DV - is vibrant, and the FX kick up a storm." The film was also promoted under the title The Puzzle of God. įilming took place in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. God's Puzzle is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Shinji Kimoto.
Motozaku fights with the media and lands in prison, where he writes his final thesis on the theory of sushi relativity. She attempts to commit suicide by jumping from a bridge but Motozaku convinces her to come to him and eat the sushi he made and brought for her.Īiri commits suicide and Saraka is arrested. Airi, who was involved in posting the video of Saraka to the Internet, crashes his car through the East Side building, allowing Motokazu to climb to the electric hut and play a rock version of Beethoven's 9th for Saraka, causing her to stop the experiment. Created through artificial insemination, Saraka cannot find meaning in her life and decides that if there is a god then it will stop her from creating a universe within our own and causing the collapse of our own.ĭuring a powerful typhoon over Tokyo, Saraka reverses the rotation of one of the rings of the Mugen accelerator and prepares a collision, feeding off of power from the national power grid that she has hacked.
A nude video of her is posted on the Internet and Saraka takes advantage of this to spread a virus to computers throughout the world, allowing her to utilize them for more memory. When the Mugen accelerator does not perform as expected, Saraka is made a scapegoat and public opinion turns against her. Motokazu learns that Saraka dated Airi before Shiratori, making them rivals. Yoshikazu continues traveling to Delhi, where his passport is stolen. When the sushi bar burns down, Motozaku takes a part-time job planting rice in a field underneath Mugen with Hashizume, an elderly student auditing the course. Motozaku chooses the creation of the universe as the subject of his final project and Saraka joins him, telling Airi that it is possible for humans to create a universe. Motozaku agrees as a means to be near his crush Shiratori, who is dating Airi, a grad student assisting with the seminar.īelieving that Motokazu is the smooth-talking Yoshikazu, Professor Hatomura asks him to convince Saraka Homizu to attend her lab course to complete her degree. Meanwhile, sushi bar worker and aspiring guitarist Motokazu Watanuki takes his more confident twin brother Yoshikazu's place and attends his difficult physics classes while Yoshikazu is visiting the Phi Phi Islands in Thailand. 17-year-old Saraka Homizu invents an infinity-shaped particle accelerator named Mugen.