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Battle Royale
Directed by
Kinji Fukasaku
Not Rated
2001
1h 53m
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7.5
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7.3
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In a dystopian future, a group of students from a Japanese high school are forced by the government to compete in a battle, killing one another until only one is left standing.
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Cast of Battle Royale
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
Aki Maeda
Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
Takeshi Kitano
Kitano
Taro Yamamoto
Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)
Masanobu Ando
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Ko Shibasaki
Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)
Chiaki Kuriyama
Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)
Takashi Tsukamoto
Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)
Sousuke Takaoka
Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)
Yukihiro Kotani
Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)
Eri Ishikawa
Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2)
Sayaka Kamiya
Satomi Noda (Girl #17)
Takayo Mimura
Kayoko Kotôhiki (Girl #8)
Yutaka Shimada
Yûtaka Seto (Boy #12)
Ren Matsuzawa
Keita Îjima (Boy #2)
Hirohito Honda
Kazushi Nîda (Boy #16)
Ryou Nitta
Kyôichi Motobuchi (Boy #20)
Sayaka Ikeda
Megumi Eto (Girl #3)
Anna Nagata
Hirono Shimizu (Girl #10)
Yukari Kanasawa
Yukiko Kitano (Girl #6)
Battle Royale Ratings & Reviews
New York Post
Sara Stewart
Stylistically it's a beauty, with khaki-uniformed waifs fighting for their lives to a crashing classical score.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Awful deaths (and hysterical reactions to them) punctuate declarations of love and friendship, revelations of treachery and heavily armed expressions of angst.
Village Voice
Eric Hynes
It may suit a certain worldview, but Battle Royale's cynicism is still a form fantasy-a balm as well as a bomb.
The Hollywood Reporter
Maggie Lee
3D conversion of a classic teen massacre thriller raises the gore level.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Maybe Battle Royale's ultimate punchline is its inexplicable ability to fool some people into taking it seriously.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
Fukasaku's set pieces are dynamic, composed and edited with a neatness that is missing from the shaky-camera esthetic of the movie's successor, 'The Hunger Games.'
IGN DVD
R.L. Shaffer
Battle Royale is a masterpiece of mayhem, violence and unfettered teen melodrama.
Boston Phoenix
Alexandra Cavallo
Battle Royale is The Hunger Games not diluted for young audiences.
Projection Booth
Rob Humanick
Pitched with the insatiable verve of a TV game show and the vacant regret of a Grand Theft Auto videogame.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Gloriously sick and twisted. A masterpiece.
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Disturbing, gory, shocking, and very original.
ESplatter
Lucius Gore
A disturbing film to say the least, and definitely one that could never have been made in the United States.
Variety
Robert Koehler
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.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
A modern classic about the folly of violence.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
What it does have is plenty of splatter, noise and energy.
Panorama
Jean-François Vandeuren
Une oeuvre faisant l'objet d'un vritable culte que l'on imagine mal voir sortir d'un studio d'Hollywood.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Races along with the swift, brutal precision of a samurai sword cutting through cotton.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Shane Burridge
Its content will earn it a following from as many witless viewers as it will thoughtful ones, but that's no reason to condemn it
Filmcritic.com
Norm Schrager
As twisted as it sounds, killing off 41 teens takes a great deal of creativity and an innate sense of pacing in order to avoid, well, cinematic boredom.
eFilmCritic.com
Brian Mckay
BATTLE ROYALE is a film that should not be easily ignored, and will not be easily forgotten...the faces of those kids are likely to linger long after the credits stop.
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