Battle Royale
(2000)
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Battle Royale
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Tatsuya Fujiwara | ... | ||
Aki Maeda | ... | ||
Tarô Yamamoto | ... | ||
Takeshi Kitano | ... |
Kitano-sensei
(as Bito Takeshi)
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Chiaki Kuriyama | ... | ||
Sôsuke Takaoka | ... | ||
Takashi Tsukamoto | ... |
Shinji Mimura - otoko 19-ban
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Yukihiro Kotani | ... |
Yôshitoki Kuninobu - otoko 7-ban
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Eri Ishikawa | ... |
Yukie Utsumi - onna 2-ban
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Sayaka Kamiya | ... |
Satomi Noda - onna 17-ban
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Aki Inoue | ... |
Fumiyo Fujiyôshi - onna 18-ban
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Takayo Mimura | ... |
Kayoko Kotôhiki - onna 8-ban
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Yutaka Shimada | ... |
Yûtaka Seto - otoko 12-ban
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Ren Matsuzawa | ... |
Keita Îjima - otoko 2-ban
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Hirohito Honda | ... |
Kazushi Nîda - otoko 16-ban
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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? Written by Prissy Panda Princess
There have been contrasting cries of "greatest film ever made" and "pointless gore fest" made about BR, and neither are accurate in my opinion. What it is, is a commentary about "perceived" (real or otherwise) problems among Japanese teens in the late 90's.
In one review, someone basically likened it to a movie involving young Japanese girls running around in school uniforms acting violent....DUH, thats the whole point. A lot of peoples only knowledge of Japan is Manga and Hentai.
If people bothered to watch the news once in awhile, they may know that the establishment in Japan were VERY worried about young people getting out of control, and BR portrays all this perfectly.
Its NOT ultra violent, although the fact that they are supposed to be teens makes it disturbing. Battle Royale is no worse than Lord of the flies, but for some reason that has been deified as a work of art, and BR is classed as trash. I'd say its more about cultural snobbery than actual appreciation of a truly magnificent film.