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Forty-two students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. 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 to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die. The movie focuses on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mitsuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and his classmates to survive?

Genre:

Drama, Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Actors:

Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sôsuke Takaoka, Takashi Tsukamoto, Yukihiro Kotani, Eri Ishikawa, Sayaka Kamiya, Takayo Mimura, ...»

Director:

Kinji Fukasaku

Country:

Japan

Release:

2000

IMDb:

7.5

Quality:

Duration:

114 min

Time Out

Forgive the film its small flaws of histrionic performances and cheap execution for the giddy rush of its banal, Verhoevenesque atmosphere...

May 22, 2012

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Film4

A wonderfully exciting, incredibly idiosyncratic actioner.

May 22, 2012

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Antagony & Ecstasy

You would never suspect that a 70-year-old man made this film: it positively hums with youthful lust and rage.

December 11, 2016

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New York Times

Awful deaths (and hysterical reactions to them) punctuate declarations of love and friendship, revelations of treachery and heavily armed expressions of angst.

May 24, 2012

Mania.com

A gloriously entertaining ride, provided you have a taste for dark material and don't mind the occasional poke in the ribs.

May 25, 2012

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Variety

Departing from two decades' worth of domestic and personal dramas and returning to his roots as Japan's maestro of mayhem, Kinji Fukasaku has delivered a brutal punch to the collective solar plexus with one of his most outrageous and timely films.

May 20, 2008

Film Journal International

Before The Hunger Games there was Battle Royale. The bloody spectacle of Japanese schoolchildren being forced into a sadistic game of "last man standing" packs an emotional wallop.

May 30, 2012

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Village Voice

It may suit a certain worldview, but Battle Royale's cynicism is still a form fantasy-a balm as well as a bomb.

May 22, 2012

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Hollywood Reporter

3D conversion of a classic teen massacre thriller raises the gore level.

May 22, 2012

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Slant Magazine

Maybe Battle Royale's ultimate punchline is its inexplicable ability to fool some people into taking it seriously.

May 20, 2012

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Seanax.com

This savage social satire revels in the brutality and gore and plays it for dark comedy and gallows humor, a teen melodrama gone feral as cliques fall apart under fire and young love is literally under the gun.

April 10, 2016

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New York Post

Stylistically it's a beauty, with khaki-uniformed waifs fighting for their lives to a crashing classical score.

May 25, 2012

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