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Battle Royale
Year
2000
Language
JAPANESE (ENGLISH subtitles)
Duration
1h 54m
Rating
NR
CC
Performers
Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama
Directed By
Kinji Fukasaku
Publication Information
Lionsgate
Summary
In this uncensored and unrated Director's Cut of the cult classic, a group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off with three days to kill each other until one survives - or they all die. The story focuses on a few of the students and how they cope. Some, like the psychotic Kiriyama or the hyper-sexual Mistuko, decide to play the game. Others, like Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada, try to find a ways to get off the island without violence. But as the violence increases and the numbers fall, can Shuya and his classmates survive?