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Seen on: 07/06/2012 (rewatch)

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Battle Royale (2000)

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Action | Science Fiction | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria, sleestakk, sleestakk

Overview

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.

Rated NR | Length 122 minutes

Actors

Chiaki Kuriyama | Takeshi Kitano | Tatsuya Fujiwara | Aki Maeda | Taro Yamamoto | Kou Shibasaki | Anna Nagata | Masanobu Ando | Yūko Miyamura | Satomi Hanamura | Takayo Mimura | Sousuke Takaoka | Takashi Tsukamoto | Mikiya Sanada | Kanako Fukaura | Yuuki Masuda | Yukihiro Kotani | Eri Ishikawa | Sayaka Kamiya | Aki Inoue | Yutaka Shimada | Ren Matsuzawa | Hirohito Honda | Kazutoshi Yokoyama | Minami | Ryouji Sugimoto | Yasuomi Sano | Shin Kusaka | Ai Iwamura | Shiro Go | Shigeki Hirokawa | Asami Kanai | Mai Sekiguchi | Tsuyako Kinoshita | Satomi Ishii | Sayaka Ikeda | Tomomi Shimaki | Tamaki Mihara | Yukari Kanasawa | Misao Kato | Hitomi Hyuga | Haruka Nomiyama | Takako Baba | Shigehiro Yamaguchi | Yousuke Shibata | Michi Yamamura | Takeyuki Hirai | Tomu Asakawa | Yûya Nakahara | Takashi Komori | Ryôta Nakamura | Akihiro Ugajin | Yôichi Murakami | Tsuguharu Niizaki | Jun'ichi Nashiki | Hiroshi Kitagawa | Hideaki Kawashima | Umiji Tasaki | Hidetsugu Okumura | Daisuke Yazawa | Nobuki Baba | Naoki Iwasawa | Kôji Tokuhisa | Kazuhiro Yokokura | Shigeki Homma | Kazuo Araki | Gôshi Matsuhara | Akira Yoshizawa | Kenzo Shirahama | Kanji Okumura | Shôji Takano | Hajime Yoneda | Hideaki Kojima | Gou Ryugawa | Ken Nakaide | Gouki Nishimura | Osamu Ohnishi | Satoshi Yokomichi | Junichi Naitou | Mitsuaki Tachikawa | Takashi Taniguchi | Ryou Nitta | Ai Maeda

Viewing Notes

I hadn’t watched this in quite a while and I’m happy to say it still holds up pretty well, though the violence seems almost quaint in comparison to a number of movies I’ve seen since this was released.

The premise also remains as silly as it ever was. The plot is, for the most part, just an excuse to get down and dirty with ‘shocking’ (for its time) teen-on-teen violence, which is an extension of the typical angst and sociological difficulties normal teenagers face on a daily basis. In this case, instead of not being invited to the cool kids party, you’re hunted down and killed with a machete. Or in this case, you show up with a gun at the cool kids party and wreak havoc.

I streamed this off Netflix Instant Watch in HD and the quality was pretty damn good. Part of my Battle Royale Double Feature Friday.

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