Battle Royale
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Director: Kinji Fukasaku Run Time: 122 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2000 Language: Japanese w/ English Subtitles
Starring: Aki Maeda, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sosuke Takaoka, Taro Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara
Before there was the Hunger Games… there was Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale. High schoolers stranded on a remote island and forced to murder each other to survive. Hailed by critics as “a vicious take-off on reality TV,” this Y2K masterpiece performs an expert balancing act between a dark satire and a wildly entertaining thriller.
“Stylistically it’s a beauty, with khaki-uniformed waifs fighting for their lives to a crashing classical score.”
-New York Post