Battle Royale
Director: Kinji Fukasaku Run Time: 122 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2000 Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Starring: Aki Maeda, Masanobu Ando, Takeshi Kitano, Taro Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara
Screenwriter: Kenta Fukusaku
Producers: Akio Kamatani, Tetsu Kayama, Masumi Okada, Masao Sato, Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku, Kimio Kataoka, Toshio Nabeshima, Chie Kobayashi
Before Squid Game or even the Hunger Games, Japanese provocateur Kinji Fukusaku brought the world this bloody dystopian teenage fight to the death. A class of ninth-graders are trapped on an island and forced to fight to the last student or face the detonation of explosives around their necks. The legendary actor/director Takeshi Kitano co-stars in this ultra-violent, darkly hilarious, and melodramatic satiric thrill ride!