![]() One year later, Shuya's class believes they are taking a field trip, but they are gassed and taken to a remote island. One of Shuya's classmates, Noriko Nakagawa, picks up the knife and secretly keeps it in her possession. One day in the middle of the school year, their teacher, Kitano, resigns after being wounded with a knife by Yoshitoki Kuninobu, Shuya's best friend. Middle school student Shuya Nanahara copes with life after his father committed suicide. In the near-future, following a major recession and high unemployment rate, the Japanese government has passed the "BR Act" to curb the nation's juvenile delinquency, which takes a random class of delinquent students and sends them to the Battle Royale games where only one survivor gets to make it out alive, thus becoming a good citizen of Japan. The film spawned the battle royale genre, including battle royale games, anime, comic books, films, manga and television shows. The film is notable for featuring many young unknown actors who become stars later on. ![]() His son Kenta Fukasaku, who wrote the screenplay for both films, completed the film in 2003. He also started working on the sequel titled Battle Royale II: Requiem, but died of prostate cancer on January 12, 2003, after shooting only one scene with Kitano. īattle Royale was the last film to be directed by Fukasaku. In 2009, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino praised Battle Royale as his favourite film of the past two decades. It is often regarded as one of Fukasaku's best films, and one of the best films of the 2000s. ![]() The film earned critical acclaim and, especially with its DVD releases, drew a large global cult following. It was the highest-grossing Japanese-language film for six weeks after its initial release, and it was later released in 22 countries worldwide, grossing over $30 million in ten countries. The film was first screened in Tokyo on more than 200 screens on December 16, 2000, with an R15+ rating, which is rarely used in Japan. The film drew controversy and was banned or excluded from distribution in several countries Toei Company refused to sell the film to any United States distributor for over a decade due to concerns about potential controversy and lawsuits, until Anchor Bay Entertainment eventually acquired the film in 2010 for a direct-to-video release. Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarō Yamamoto, and Takeshi Kitano, the film follows a group of junior-high-school students forced to fight to the death by the Japanese totalitarian government. Battle Royale ( バトル・ロワイアル, Batoru Rowaiaru) is a 2000 Japanese action-thriller film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, with a screenplay written by Kenta Fukasaku, based on the controversial 1999 novel by Koushun Takami.
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