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Battle Royale (Batoru rowaiaru) (2000)

7.7 Listal rating
8 IMDB rating

1 Videos

99 Pictures

3 Reviews

64 Lists

330 Ratings

Thriller (24), Action (23), Japanese (21), Japan (12), Murder (12), Survival (12), Suicide (12), Drama (10), Foreign (9), 2000 (9), 2000s (9), Horror (9), Teen (8), Kidnapping (7), Blood (6), Asian (6), Friendship (6), Island (6), Sea (5), Beach (4)

Description

At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleaguered and near-defeated government decides to introduce a radical new measu ... (more)


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Starring (View all) :
Tatsuya Fujiwara

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Shuya Nanahara - otoko 15-ban
Aki Maeda

Aki Maeda

Noriko Nakagawa - onna 15-ban
Tarô Yamamoto

Tarô Yamamoto

Shôgo Kawada - otoko 5-ban
Chiaki Kuriyama

Chiaki Kuriyama

Takako Chigusa - onna 13-ban
Sosuke Takaoka

Sosuke Takaoka

Hiroki Sugimura - otoko 11-ban
Takashi Tsukamoto

Takashi Tsukamoto

Shinji Mimura - otoko 19-ban
Yukihiro Kotani

Yukihiro Kotani

Yôshitoki Kuninobu - otoko 7-ban
Eri Ishikawa

Eri Ishikawa

Yukie Utsumi - onna 2-ban
Sayaka Kamiya

Sayaka Kamiya

Satomi Noda - onna 17-ban
Aki Inoue

Aki Inoue

Fumiyo Fujiyôshi - onna 18-ban


Written by (View all) :
Kenta Fukasaku

Kenta Fukasaku

(screenplay)


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53 votes
Listal's 100 Films To See Before You Die (100 items) by Kryptic Centurion

Published 2 months, 1 week ago

15 comments

38 votes
Listal's 50 Infamous Villains of Cinema (31 items) by Kryptic Centurion

Published 10 months, 1 week ago

3 comments

35 votes
Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time (50 items) by Grand Assault

Published 1 year ago

3 comments

31 votes
"You probably won't get off this island alive." (12 items) by Kryptic Centurion

Published 1 week, 2 days ago

8 comments

26 votes
Extreme Cinema (148 items) by Hexenkult

Last updated 9 months, 1 week ago

4 comments


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Ratings of Battle Royale







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Life is a game!

Posted : 1 year ago at Nov 19 20:19
''Life is a game. So fight for survival and see if you're worth it.'' In future Japan, the government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act. Tatsuya Fujiwara: Shuya Nanahara - Boys #15 Aki Maeda: Noriko Nakagawa - Girls #15 Ah Battle Royale reminds me of my days at school.... Only joking, kind of! Royale tackles brain washing and youth in one foul swopp and i can see why it is compaered in certain ideas to Clockwork Orange. Even the music nods at Stanley Kubrick in places. Reminding me of Final Fantasy to music wise and that kid in the smart suit. The killing is pretty good in this, meant to be disturbing but it caused me to laugh at times in it's approaches. Could you kill your be...Read more

Rating : 9/10

A Brilliant Story.

Posted : 1 year, 7 months ago at Apr 19 17:48
I recommend this film to everyone who can handle subtitles and mild gore really, its a brilliant idea which im sure has been done before but there is so much to like about this particular story that it stands out as a classic straight away. The Japanese government come up with the novel idea of combating unemployment and the increasing issue of youth crime, by sending the worse offending classes to a remote island where they are forced into collars capable of killing them and told they have 3 days to murder each other until 1 is left standing otherwise after 3 days they all die. Each youth is given a back pack of supplies, a map, and 1 secret weapon to aid them in their battle, ranging from machine guns, cross bows, right down to a fan and a bin lid. They are forced into moving constan...Read more

Rating : 8/10

Review

Posted : 2 years ago at Nov 3 19:27
A film that stands out from the rest of the Tartan Asia Extreme collection as one that is immensely thought provoking and profound. Although the plot is something that is not regarded as anything ground-breaking, the film manages to avoid tired old cliches that might have arisen in your own imagination if you were thrust into the same position as these unfortunate school children. Essentially, an unruly class is shipped off to a desert island (under a new law in Japanese justice) where they then have to fight to the death. The ultimate survivor is promised salvation and an almost anti-hero like status amongst the Japanese public, though as the film progeresses you see that this isn't the case. With each child assigned a random weapon (ranging from guns and grenades to saucepan lids and ...Read more

Rating : 9/10