Production Year: 2000 - Action/Adventure - Director: Kinji Fukasaku - Original Language: Japanese - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Takeshi Kitano, Fujiwara Tatsuya, Maeda Aki, Yamamoto Taro
Advantages: Brutal, violent, satirical, shockingly funny film Disadvantages: Plot holes, may be too disturbing for some
...society, really.
The 2000 Japanese film, Battle Royale, is a horror/thriller/action/social satire/Lord Of The Flies rip-off like none other you've seen before. It stars Count Takeshi from Takeshi's Castle (now that was a show and a half) and a bunch of Japanese teenagers, naturally (one of these is the girl who played the ball-and-chain spinning crazy schoolgirl in Kill Bill).
The film is narrated by Shuya, a boy who grew up in care after his ...
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Advantages: Meaningful, violent and very funny Disadvantages: Could be too extreme for some tastes
...chosen for the government’s new Battle Royale scheme, a bloodthirsty method of keeping unruly and disrespectful kids in check. The class are taken to a deserted island, given a backpack full of goodies each with a different weapon and told to wipe each other out; last man or woman standing gets to go home. As if things weren’t already bad enough for the poor little tykes, they also have to wear irremovable collars that will explode if they don’t behave ...
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The BR Act Review ofBattle Royale DVDby
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Advantages: Emotional, Violent and Meaningful Disadvantages: Japanese film with english sub titles
Battle Royale (2000)
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Battle Royale tells of the story of a controversial future in Japan, whereby 9th Grade Classes are randomly selected to appear in a “Survival of the Fittest Game”. The film is based upon a novel by Koushun Takami. The purpose behind the BR Act was to stop the children rebelling against the adults, as schools were reporting crimes of extreme disobedience, and violence. The adults introduced the ...
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Advantages: refreshing violence and death Disadvantages: bit expensive
...seek vengeance.
To give us some battle tips steve told me to buy Battle Royale on dvd, being from the far east he was aware of the work of 'BEAT' Takeshi (some japanese actor) and had heard good stuff about it, i had been aware of a little bit of uproar when it came out at the cinema over here and had wanted to see it but my local only played it about twice before playing some pap about aa animated fish or something.
We whacked it in and enjoyed.
Battle ...
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Advantages: a serious message, raises interesting questions Disadvantages: Subtitles? (if you don't like that sort of thing)
This film is in parts very gorry, thats not to say the violence is over the top considering the plot, just the it is seen rather than infered. I am not adverse to gore but at the same time that was not my intention for watching it. I had heard alot about this film, much of it to do with the violence but i was intrigued to view it for myself.
The plot revolves around a class of school children, in not to distant future Tokyo. It is a time where ...
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Advantages: Standard Beat Takeshi fare, typical Japanese gore fest Disadvantages: Not for the faint hearted
I am in my first year of a Japanese and Business Studies BA (Hons). My friends and I have watched a number of Japanese films over the year to help us with understanding the people a little more and of course practising our language skills. There is no way we can keep up with the film, but it is nice to pick up on certain snippets and plot points.
The basic story is that the Japanese youth have spiralled out of control. In a bid to keep order, the ...
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Advantages: Insight into Japanese culture & values, good story & acting Disadvantages: Some may find it too violent
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Advantages: Original storyline, emotionally involving, relevant to today's fears of escalating juvenile crime Disadvantages: A couple of unclear plot quibbles
...drastic solution, they pass the Battle Royale law. One high school class is chosen by an impartial lottery to be shipped off to an island where they have to fight to the death leaving only one survivor. This will show that the people of Japan will no longer take lightly the tide of growing juvenile law-breaking.
The film follows one such class who have been chosen to participate in the latest Battle Royale. They were told they were going on an ...
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...the most extreme way with Battle Royale. Each year a class is chosen at random and is pitted against its self on an abandoned island in a cruel and terrifying game of survival that lasts for three days. Only one student may survive.
Thus begins the one of the most violent, gruesome, and explicitly shocking movies in Australian theatres. Having been mostly raised on western cinema with very little Japanese influence, appreciating the context and ...
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Advantages: This is bound to be a cult classic Disadvantages: Unsatisfying extras
...chosen to take part in Battle Royale. The lucky class are drugged, taken to an island and shown a cute introductory video which tells them that the only person who will be allowed to leave the island alive is the last person standing. Naturally, the kids are not too happy about this. But they don't get a choice thanks to the exploding strip strapped to their necks. Each is given a weapon and sent out on to the island.
Cue gore, tension and alot ...
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Advantages: involving, good story, originality... Disadvantages: cant watch while tired - subtitles!
...told they're taking part in Battle Royale, a sick invention that basically is last man standing. Each student is given a pack of stuff, including a weapon, and sent out onto an island.
The overall storyline shows how each of the pupils dies, some of the deaths are very gory, but hell, its worth it.. There are 2 people who go onto the island who were not from the class, however. One is a psychotic blonde haired cool lookin guy who goes onto the ...
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Advantages: Original film- very interesting Disadvantages: A bit gory
...BR Act.'
The BR Act is Battle Royale, an annual game in which a randomly selected low- performing class of students are, unkown to them, smuggled to an evacuated island, after being told they were going on a class trip. However, this is not exactly a trip you'd want to be part of.
In this film, a mixed class of 42 teenagers wake up in a strange classroom, after being drugged with gases, causing them to fall asleep, whilst strange, unremovable ...
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Advantages: weird and strange Disadvantages: have to read subtitles
...chosen to take part in Battle Royale, they have no choice in whether they take part or not. The class are put on an island and each child is given a backpack, they are all different and each one contains a different weapon. The idea of the game is to kill each other, the person left at the end wins. If there’s more than one person left at the end they get their heads blown off by a device around their neck.
There are two main characters in the ...
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Advantages: gore, original, Takeshi Kitano Disadvantages: not enought suspense for this sort of movie
...I entended to speak about Battle Royale it was at night on an advert. I had seen blood, guns and crazy student life ... instantaneously i'm was seducing by the principle.
**************** The director and the actors ****************
The film is directed by Kinji Fukasaku who has signed more sixties movies but he is only revealed by battle royale in 2001 to occidental world. This Japanese director has refused violent cop because he felt ...
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Battle Royale [2001]
With the Japanese currently leading the way in thought-provoking cinematic violence it's
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only fitting that Kenta Fukasaku's Battle Royale is being touted as A Clockwork Orange for the 21st century. Based on the novel by Koshun Takami, the film opens wi...
Battle Royale [2001]
With the Japanese currently leading the way in thought-provoking cinematic violence it's
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only fitting that Kenta Fukasaku's Battle Royale is being touted as A Clockwork Orange for the 21st century. Based on the novel by Koshun Takami, the film opens wi...
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The Japanese nation is in turmoil and on the verge of a collapse, the government must act
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to stop the violence from the nation's youth. They introduce a new measure 'Battle Royale' in which the pupils in a class from a randomly chosen school are taken ...
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