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All movies seen on 07/06/2012

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Battle Royale (2000)

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Action | Science Fiction | Thriller

Most recently watched by VicnaLobster, sleestakk, twobitme, schofizzy, elisabethwithns, seanCduregger, zombiefreak

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 113 minutes

Actors

Tatsuya Fujiwara | Aki Maeda | Takeshi Kitano | Taro Yamamoto | Masanobu Ando | Kou Shibasaki | Chiaki Kuriyama | Takashi Tsukamoto | Sousuke Takaoka | Yukihiro Kotani | Eri Ishikawa | Sayaka Kamiya | Takayo Mimura | Yutaka Shimada | Ren Matsuzawa | Hirohito Honda | Ryou Nitta | Sayaka Ikeda | Anna Nagata | Yukari Kanasawa | Misao Kato | Hitomi Hyuga | Satomi Ishii | Asami Kanai | Satomi Hanamura | Yousuke Shibata | Shiro Go | Yuuki Masuda | Shigeki Hirokawa | Tamaki Mihara | Tomomi Shimaki | Yasuomi Sano | Shin Kusaka | Gouki Nishimura | Shigehiro Yamaguchi | Osamu Ohnishi | Satoshi Yokomichi | Junichi Naitou | Tsuyako Kinoshita | Mai Sekiguchi | Takako Baba | Haruka Nomiyama | Aki Inoue | Ai Iwamura | Ai Maeda | Minami | Michi Yamamura | Kazutoshi Yokoyama | Gô Tatsukawa | Takashi Taniguchi | Ken Nakaide | Kanako Fukaura | Yuko Miyamura | 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 | Mikiya Sanada | Kazuhiro Yokokura | Shigeki Homma | Kazuo Araki | Gôshi Matsuhara | Akira Yoshizawa | Kenzo Shirahama | Kanji Okumura | Shôji Takano | Ryouji Sugimoto | Hajime Yoneda | Hideaki Kojima | Mitsuaki Tachikawa

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

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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