Synopsis
Could you kill your best friend?
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.
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.
Tatsuya Fujiwara Aki Maeda Takeshi Kitano Taro Yamamoto Masanobu Ando Ko Shibasaki Chiaki Kuriyama Takashi Tsukamoto Sousuke Takaoka Yukihiro Kotani Eri Ishikawa Sayaka Kamiya Takayo Mimura Yutaka Shimada Ren Matsuzawa Hirohito Honda Ryou Nitta Sayaka Ikeda Anna Nagata Yukari Kanasawa Misao Kato Hitomi Hyuga Satomi Ishii Asami Kanai Satomi Hanamura Yousuke Shibata Shiro Go Yuuki Masuda Shigeki Hirokawa Show All…
Battle Royale - Nur einer kann überleben!, Battle Royale: Special Edition, Batalla Real, Borba do poslednjeg, A Batalha Real, Karališkas mušis, バトル・ロワイアル 特別篇, Batoru Rowaiaru, Kraljevska bitka, Королівська битва, 배틀 로얄, バトル・ロワイアル3D, 大逃杀, バトル・ロワイアル, Королевская битва, Ölüm Oyunu, קרב מלכותי, Batalha Real, Кралска битка, Juego sangriento [バトル・ロワイアル], 大逃殺, เกมนรก โรงเรียนพันธุ์โหด, Cuộc Chiến Sống Còn, სამეფო ბრძოლა, Борба до последњег
Every boy in this movie looks like he is a character straight from anime. Man, I hate that hairstyle. Then and now.
Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games) says she was inspired to write The Hunger Games after the poverty she saw in Iraq during the war. Uh huh.
Is anyone else buying that bullshit?
Still a great movie 14 years later.
If I'm killed by Mitsuko Souma DO NOT PROSECUTE her. SHE caught ME slipping. THAT IS ON ME.
A "scarier" film (in my eyes) when you realise that this is a truly dark comedy about school kids scurrying around attempting to kill each other, and that director Fukasaku and his classmates, when fifteen, were drafted to work in a munitions factory (during the war) and it was bombed - leaving practically all of them dead. Fukasaku's job afterwards was to clean up his own dead classmates.
tag urself i'm the girl who stabbed a guy in the dick for spreading rumors about her
suzanne collins: hey can i copy your homework
battle royale: yeah just change a few things so that its not obvious
Run.
When you've already presented the main plot on the table in the first five minutes, and the rest of it are mostly predictable, what do you use to drive your film forward while keeping it interesting?
Testicle mutilation.
Wait. No.
Characters. That's right. Characters. Good ones. The ones with depth. And director Kinji Fukasaku, or rather, author of the original novel -- Koushun Takami, delivers. 43 of 'em! (Including Kitano-sensei.) The hardest part of telling a story about teenagers stabbing, choking and shooting each other is to make the audience care about them. Once that obstacle is crossed, what we have is an emotional, intense, shocking and insane little cult classic.
What makes Battle Royale even more special is…