Director: Kinji Fukasaku Production: Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku, Kimio Kataoka, Toshio Kobayashi Chie Nabeshima
Screenplay: Kenta Fukasaku based in the novel created by Koushun Takami.
Music: Masamichi Amano
Sound: Kunio Ando
Photo: Katsumi Yanagishima
Starring: Kou Shibasaki (Mitsuko Souma), Tatsuya Fujiwara (Shuya Shuya), Aki Maeda (Noriko Nakagawa), Taro Yamamoto (Kawada Shogo), Masanobu Ando (Kazuo Kiriyama), Chiaki Kuriyama (Takako Chigusa), Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi). Nationality
Japan
Year 2000
Duration 114 minutes / 122 minutes Japanese
Synopsis: early third millennium, the situation in Japan becomes untenable. The unemployment rate reaches 15%. In the classroom the students are out of control and cause massive boycotts. In response to this situation the government created the law of Battle Royale. According to this law every year he was elected a class at random from all institutes Japanese, to be brought to an island where they will have to fight each other for three days or until only one survivor.
During a school trip in which class is Shuya Shuya is drugged while riding the bus. Upon awakening, he and his colleagues discovered the necklace and have been abducted to participate in Battle Royale.
A true cult film. I'm no fan of gore or killing or anything like that, but the rawness of BR rarely focuses on the blood or direct violence (who has it and a lot) but in the wilds of a government that considers "healthy" to murdering each other boys, classmates and as such, required by the circumstances, murder reliving the petty school conflicts during this process. Special mention to the first of the deaths, though not particularly nasty, if I was shocking by the unexpected and sudden.
Ah, the film is in two parts because it was normal pieces so as to fall into two CDs, you know, pre-DVD era.
Part 1
Part 2
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