Battle Royale
Film details
| Film Title | Battle Royale |
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| Length | 114mins |
| Year | 2000 |
| Country | Japan |
| Director | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Actors | Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto |
| Language | Japanese |
| AKA | Batoru rowaiaru |
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BATTLE ROYALE (2000) is an influential Japanese cult thriller film based on the 1999 dystopian novel by Koushen Takami. Written by Kenta Fukasaku and directed by Kinji Fukasaku, this was the final film Fukasaku directed before his death in 2003. BATTLE ROYALE follows a class of teenagers sent to a deserted island. There they are forced by the Japanese government to kill each other until one survivor remains, or they all die. The last one standing will be the only student allowed to leave the island and return home.
The screening will feature a newly restored version of the film.
Some will be uncomfortable or appalled, and the mix of humour and horror is uneasy, but this isn’t a film you’ll forget easily. And, seriously, what would you do?
★★★★
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.
★★★★
VarietyPut together with remarkable confidence and flair. Its steely candour, and weird, passionate urgency make it compelling
★★★★
“Who needs a remake, when you have an original that still packs this kind of punch.”
★★★★★
“If there’s any movie that’s been made since I’ve been making movies that I wish I had made, it’s that one.”
★★★★★
Quentin Tarantino
