Battle Royale (2000) ( Batoru rowaiaru )

Battle Royale (2000) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Batoru rowaiaru
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
114 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Collectors Edition
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet
Steelbook Edition

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Kinji Fukasaku

Written By:
Koushun Takami
Kenta Fukasaku

Actors:
Tatsuya Fujiwara ..... Shuya Nanahara - otoko 15-ban
Aki Maeda ..... Noriko Nakagawa - onna 15-ban
Tarô Yamamoto ..... Shôgo Kawada - otoko 5-ban
Takeshi Kitano ..... Kitano-sensei
Chiaki Kuriyama ..... Takako Chigusa - onna 13-ban
Sosuke Takaoka ..... Hiroki Sugimura - otoko 11-ban
Takashi Tsukamoto ..... Shinji Mimura - otoko 19-ban
Yukihiro Kotani ..... Yôshitoki Kuninobu - otoko 7-ban
Eri Ishikawa ..... Yukie Utsumi - onna 2-ban
Sayaka Kamiya ..... Satomi Noda - onna 17-ban
Aki Inoue ..... Fumiyo Fujiyôshi - onna 18-ban
Takayo Mimura ..... Kayoko Kotôhiki - onna 8-ban
Yutaka Shimada ..... Yûtaka Seto - otoko 12-ban
Ren Matsuzawa ..... Keita Îjima - otoko 2-ban
Hirohito Honda ..... Kazushi Nîda - otoko 16-ban

Synopsis:

***114 min - Theatrical Cut***122 min - Director's Cut***Battle Royale is back. It's time to return to the island and kill your friends, because the cult Japanese movie that defines twisted action and sickening violence is ready to shock you all over again. In a world where teenagers have no respect and adults are losing control there can be only one solution: Battle Royale! Now, see what happens when you let a high school class loose on an island, arm them and then give them a simple choice... Kill your friends or have them kill you; with poison, cross-bows, machetes and dynamite. `Beat' Takeshi Kitano (Violent Cop, Zatoichi) is a teacher pushed to the edge by his unruly charges. Kidnapped and gassed, his class wake up with exploding metal rings around their necks. If they rebel, they could lose their heads. Now they have three days and only one is permitted to survive this grisly battle to the death. Directed by the master of '70s Yakuza thrillers Kinji Fukasaku and featuring Kill Bill star Chiaki Kuriyama, Battle Royale is the movie that helped to define extreme Asian cinema in the 21st Century.

In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious teenagers in this violent sci-fi opus from Japan. In the year 2002, Japan's economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, and massive unemployment and inflation have thrown most adults into a state of chaos; the nation's youth culture responds with unprecedented violence, delinquency, and truancy. Desperate to restore order, the Japanese parliament responds by creating the Millennial Reform School Act, in which groups of junior high students are selected at random, sent to an isolated island, and forced to play a rigorous war game, in which all but one of their number are killed. Kitano (Beat Takeshi) is an embittered school instructor who guides the 44 students of the Zentsuji Middle School's Class B through the deadly game known as 'Battle Royale,' as they struggle to survive against the elements and each other. Battle Royale proved to be both successful and highly controversial in Japan, where it set box-office records and prompted political leaders to call for stricter controls on violence in Japanese entertainment; the film was initially rated R-15 (no one under 15 admitted), unusual for violent films in Japan, though director Kinji Fukasaku later prepared a re-edited version that earned a more lenient classification.

In the beginning of the 21st Century, the economy of Japan is near a total collapse, with high rates of unemployment and students boycotting their classes. The government approves the Battle Royale Act, where one class is randomly selected and the students are sent to an island wearing necklaces with few supplies and one weapon. After three days, they have to kill each other and the survivor wins his or her own life as a prize. The 42 students of a ninth-grade class are selected to participate in the survival game and abducted while traveling in their bus. Under the command of their former teacher Kitano, they have to eliminate each other following the rules of the sadistic game where only one wins.

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