A future Japanese fascist government has forged a new program for dangerous students,broadcasting live like a reality television movie .In this fictional universe,a class of junior-high school of 42 students is randomly selected and sent a bleak island during three days.There a former professor(Takeshi Kitano)rules a revolutionary survival game called Battle Royale.The abducted class are given a bag with different arms,a map and a few rations of food and tied a collar explodes when they break the rules.They're dispatched to the inhospitable island and sent off to murder each other into a survival game .Someone decide to play the game to death like the psycho assassin teen,while others commit suicide themselves and another are attempting to encounter a way out to get off the empty island where exist a special danger zones.The violent death match game originating an authentic body count to be continued until solely one single winner remain.
The film contains action,thrills,rare black humour,blood and is plenty of graphical violence.Excellent action sequences with bloody attacks and violent and blistering fights.The movie displays strong exploitation elements with realistic battles and some characters aren't well defined or one-dimensional but the grisly violence is continuous .It turn out to be a blending about a teens group on abandoned island such as¨Lord of flies¨,the game to death from ¨Running man¨and the tyrannical control by the government of ¨1984¨.Takeshi Kitano or Beat Takeshi is an appropriate villainous teacher in a powerful performance,he's splendid as actor(Gohetto)as director or both(Hanna-Bi,Sonatine,Kikujiro,Brother,Zaitochi).Little known actors ,exception of Chaki Kuriyama(Azumi 2,Ju-on),she's especially famous for his role the teenager killer in ¨Kill Bill vol. I¨.The motion picture is rightly directed by Kinji Fukasaku, an expert Sci-fi and action movies(The green slime,ToraToraTora,Virus).It's followed in 2003 by the second part,an inferior sequel, concerning a new class is sent an island with one aim,the killing of international terrorists.But the director died during the shooting and went on his son,Kenta Fukasaku.
The film contains action,thrills,rare black humour,blood and is plenty of graphical violence.Excellent action sequences with bloody attacks and violent and blistering fights.The movie displays strong exploitation elements with realistic battles and some characters aren't well defined or one-dimensional but the grisly violence is continuous .It turn out to be a blending about a teens group on abandoned island such as¨Lord of flies¨,the game to death from ¨Running man¨and the tyrannical control by the government of ¨1984¨.Takeshi Kitano or Beat Takeshi is an appropriate villainous teacher in a powerful performance,he's splendid as actor(Gohetto)as director or both(Hanna-Bi,Sonatine,Kikujiro,Brother,Zaitochi).Little known actors ,exception of Chaki Kuriyama(Azumi 2,Ju-on),she's especially famous for his role the teenager killer in ¨Kill Bill vol. I¨.The motion picture is rightly directed by Kinji Fukasaku, an expert Sci-fi and action movies(The green slime,ToraToraTora,Virus).It's followed in 2003 by the second part,an inferior sequel, concerning a new class is sent an island with one aim,the killing of international terrorists.But the director died during the shooting and went on his son,Kenta Fukasaku.