Battle Royale
Could you kill your best friend?
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 20, 2012
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tatsuya Fujiwara, Taro Yamamoto, Aki Maeda, Masanobu Andô & Ko Shibasaki | |
Directed by | Kinji Fukasaku | |
Screenwriting by | Kenta Fukasaku | |
Composition by | Masamichi Amano | |
Director of Photography: | Katsumi Yanagishima & Yanagijima Katsumi |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
A wonderfully exciting, incredibly idiosyncratic actioner.
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Film4
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.
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Film Journal International
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] manga-fied LORD OF THE FLIES with automatic weapons...
Total Film
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.
Variety
Rating: 9/10 --
You would never suspect that a 70-year-old man made this film: it positively hums with youthful lust and rage.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Awful deaths (and hysterical reactions to them) punctuate declarations of love and friendship, revelations of treachery and heavily armed expressions of angst.
New York Times
Rating: A --
A gloriously entertaining ride, provided you have a taste for dark material and don't mind the occasional poke in the ribs.
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Mania.com
Product Description:
In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious teenagers in this violent sci-fi opus from Japan. In the year 2002, Japan's economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, and massive unemployment and inflation have thrown most adults into a state of chaos; the nation's youth culture responds with unprecedented violence, delinquency, and truancy. Desperate to restore order, the Japanese parliament responds by creating the Millennial Reform School Act, in which groups of junior high students are selected at random, sent to an isolated island, and forced to play a rigorous war game, in which all but one of their number are killed. Kitano (Beat Takeshi) is an embittered school instructor who guides the 44 students of the Zentsuji Middle School's Class B through the deadly game known as "Battle Royale," as they struggle to survive against the elements and each other. BATTLE ROYALE proved to be both successful and highly controversial in Japan, where it set box-office records and prompted political leaders to call for stricter controls on violence in Japanese entertainment; the film was initially rated R-15 (no one under 15 admitted), unusual for violent films in Japan, though director Kinji Fukasaku later prepared a re-edited version that earned a more lenient classification.
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- Sales Rank: 46,436
- UPC: 013132376295
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