Battle Royale

4.00
    Battle Royale
    2000

    Synopsis

    In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

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    Cast

    • Tatsuya FujiwaraShuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
    • Aki MaedaNoriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
    • Takeshi KitanoKitano
    • Taro YamamotoShogo Kawada (Boy #5)
    • Masanobu AndoKazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
    • Ko ShibasakiMitsuko Souma (Girl #11)
    • Chiaki KuriyamaTakako Chigusa (Girl #13)
    • Takashi TsukamotoShinji Mimura (Boy #19)
    • Sousuke TakaokaHiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)
    • Yukihiro KotaniYôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)

    Recommendations

    • 90

      Village Voice

      [Fukasaku's] genius is finding the overlap between teenage dreams and nightmares, between the intensity of first love and the terror of extinction.
    • 90

      The New York Times

      American fans of "The Hunger Games" may not embrace - or even be permitted to see - Battle Royale, which is too bad. It is in many ways a better movie and in any case a fascinating companion, drawn from a parallel cultural universe. It is a lot uglier and also, perversely, a lot more fun.
    • 90

      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.
    • 80

      Time Out

      Kinji Fukasaku's slick, sick nightmare is best left to the quasi-banned realm where it exists as a perfect satire; when brought into reality, it's a touch awkward.
    • 75

      New York Post

      This one's a thoroughly campy exercise in teen melodrama and Grand Guignol gore (how gory? it's one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite movies), the other (The Hunger Games) a straight-faced action picture.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Bloodhounds will lick their lips experiencing the re-launch of Kinji Fukasaku's trendsetting Battle Royale (2000) with 3D effects, which basically make the splatter scenes gorier and stickier.
    • 38

      Slant Magazine

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

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