Battle Royale (2000):

Starring:

Tatsuya Fujiwara - Shuya Nanahara

Aki Maeda - Nirko Nakagawa

Takeshi Kitano - Kitano-Sensei

A Bunch of other Jap actors

Director:

Kinji Fukasaku

Synopsis:

A long-unavailable underground hit that anticipated The Hunger Games novels by eight years, veteran director Fukasaku's epically violent, still-controversial and deeply influential genre masterpiece takes place in a dystopian alternate universe. In the near future, the economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared and juvenile crime has exploded. Fearful of its nation's youth, the Japanese government passes The BR Law: Each year, a 9th grade class is sent to a remote island where they will be locked into exploding neck collars, given a random weapon, and forced to hunt and kill each other until there is only one survivor left.

Review:

The Hunger Games..... for adults. Everything that garbage film should have been. Intense fighting & killing. No bullshit cut away scenes, no implied deaths. All around awesome.

Budget: $4,500,000

Box Office: $25,000,000

Profit: $20,500,000

Rotten Tomatoes:  86%

Flixster: 89%

81%

Lead Acting: 12/15

Supporing Cast: 9/15

Plot: 10/10

Compared To The Genre: 10/10

Cinematography: 15/20

Intrigue: 18/20

     Extra: 7/10