As the Gods Will (神さまの言うとおり, Kami-sama no Iu Tōri) is a 2014 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Takashi Miike.

[3] High school student Shun Takahata spends much of his time playing violent video games.

There they play a Maneki Neko, where students dressed as mice attempt to throw a ball into a hoop attached to the collar of a giant cat doll.

Taruka and Shun fight but they are knocked out by sleeping gas released by the giant cat doll.

If the Kokeshi lose, one of them reveals an answer key which opens the doors and frees the students to the next level.

However, writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk claimed he wrote Squid Game's script in 2009, five years before As the Gods Will was released, stating "the similarities that were pointed out are purely coincidental and there is no copying from either party.