Battle Royale (Blu-ray)

Could you kill your best friend?
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Blu-ray Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 20, 2012
  • Originally Released: 2000
  • Label: Starz / Anchor Bay

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Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh87%

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Total Count: 46

Upright89%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 86,465
Before The Hunger Games there was Battle Royale. The bloody spectacle of Japanese schoolchildren being forced into a sadistic game of "last man standing" packs an emotional wallop. Full Review
Film Journal International
May 30, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- A wonderfully exciting, incredibly idiosyncratic actioner. Full Review
Film4
May 22, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- Forgive the film its small flaws of histrionic performances and cheap execution for the giddy rush of its banal, Verhoevenesque atmosphere... Full Review
Time Out
May 22, 2012
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Awful deaths (and hysterical reactions to them) punctuate declarations of love and friendship, revelations of treachery and heavily armed expressions of angst.
New York Times
May 24, 2012
Departing from two decades' worth of domestic and personal dramas and returning to his roots as Japan's maestro of mayhem, Kinji Fukasaku has delivered a brutal punch to the collective solar plexus with one of his most outrageous and timely films.
Variety
May 20, 2008
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Not a face value film, it leaves its audience questioning, reflecting, and debating its hauntingly resonant implications. Full Review
From the Front Row
Aug 5, 2019
3D conversion of a classic teen massacre thriller raises the gore level. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
May 22, 2012

Product Description:

In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious teenagers in this violent sci-fi opus from Japan. In the year 2002, Japan's economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, and massive unemployment and inflation have thrown most adults into a state of chaos; the nation's youth culture responds with unprecedented violence, delinquency, and truancy. Desperate to restore order, the Japanese parliament responds by creating the Millennial Reform School Act, in which groups of junior high students are selected at random, sent to an isolated island, and forced to play a rigorous war game, in which all but one of their number are killed. Kitano (Beat Takeshi) is an embittered school instructor who guides the 44 students of the Zentsuji Middle School's Class B through the deadly game known as "Battle Royale," as they struggle to survive against the elements and each other. BATTLE ROYALE proved to be both successful and highly controversial in Japan, where it set box-office records and prompted political leaders to call for stricter controls on violence in Japanese entertainment; the film was initially rated R-15 (no one under 15 admitted), unusual for violent films in Japan, though director Kinji Fukasaku later prepared a re-edited version that earned a more lenient classification.

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  • UPC: 013132376790
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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