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Name: Battle Royale
Released: 2000-12-16
Cast: 藤原竜也, 前田亜季, Taro Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama

Battle Royale

UR
1h 53m
2000

90%

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In this cult classic, a group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off with three days to kill each other until one survives - or they all die. The story focuses on a few of the students and how they cope. Some, like the psychotic Kiriyama or the hyper-sexual Mistuko, decide to play the game. Others, like Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada, try to find a ways to get off the island without violence. But as the violence increases and the numbers fall, can Shuya and his classmates survive?

Director:

Kinji Fukasaku

Producer:

Kinji Fukasaku, Kenta Fukasaku, Kimio Kataoka, Chie Kobayashi, Toshio Nabeshima, Masumi Okada

Writer:

Koushun Takami, Kenta Fukasaku

Cast:

藤原竜也, 前田亜季, Taro Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

90%

Critics Consensus: Battle Royale is a controversial and violent parable of adolescence, heightening teenage melodrama with life-or-death stakes.

Reviews

Screen Rant

Gregory Nussen

Kinji Fukasaku's dystopian high school-set murder spree is more prescient than ever.

Battle Royale” stands as a definite cult movie, from Takeshi Kitano's presence to the way it inspired Tarantino, to the violent portrayal of youth and sociopolitical criticism unfolds against a backdrop of dark humor and an evocative soundtrack.

The "groundbreaking" premise of Battle Royale remains a good black comedy diversion that's more conventional than some wanted it to be. [Full review in Spanish]

It is not simply satire, but social commentary; not simply a sensational over-the-top movie, but an important one as well.

The last half hour is the most successful, a final interlude of generational warfare, then radical anonymous freedom.

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