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Battle Royale is a 2000 Japanese dystopian action film directed by Kinji Fukasaku from a screenplay by Kenta Fukasaku, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. The film stars Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarō Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kou Shibasaki, Masanobu Andō, and Beat Takeshi. It follows a group of junior high school students forced to fight to the death by a totalitarian Japanese…
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Well a new movie year has started and I wanted to reflect on the best things I saw this year but there are a few I wasn’t able to get to. So I sat down to watch a couple of big ones that I missed in the theaters. I wanted to see One Battle After Another as soon as I saw the first trailer for it. Leonardo DiCaprio playing a super paranoid revolutionary? Yeah I’m in. My wife wanted to see this one too but with a runti…More
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Kinji Fukasaku's 2000 film *Battle Royale* is one of the most controversial and influential Japanese productions of the modern era. Based on Koushun Takami's bestselling 1999 novel, the film presents a dystopian near-future where Japan's government combats juvenile delinquency through a brutal reality show: randomly selected class of high school students is transported to a deserted island, fitted with explosive col…More
I have fond memories of watching the Battle Royale film. As a young teenager, I would watch films late at night on an old 13" Toshiba CRT, this television screen small, with a very square box to fill up the surrounding space. I would have to move around by hand an old aerial in hopes of establishing a better connection to gain access to the four television channels to choose from. I have mentioned this in the past:…More
Source Despite its greatest merit today being known as the obvious inspiration for The Hunger Games, Squid Games, and one of today's most important video game genres, Battle Royale is a genuinely quality film that manages to do a lot. things good, although a couple of flaws can slightly affect the experience it provides. Its premise is quite simple: 42 students are randomly selected to fight on a desert island, in t…More
A Japanese dystopia with gore elements Una distopía japonesa con elementos gore MUBI has changed my life in a positive way. Before subscribing to this platform, I spent hours trying to find an attractive option for me on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video or trying to choose a movie from the dozens that I have stored on my hard drive. However, in recent weeks all I do is look at the alert that MUBI sends me with the mov…More
Hello CineTv How are you friends? I hope that all members of the CineTV Community are always in good health and always happy in living this life. This time, I want to participate in the Cine TV Contest again. Cine TV Contest #28 takes a very interesting theme, namely “One Movie on a Deserted Island”. For a more detailed explanation of Cine TV Contest #28 you can click this link I try to imagine, I am stranded on a d…More
Image source I guess it's really late to celebrate Halloween with this post, but I really wanted to write about one out now. After seeing the movie, am convinced we're not too far off from this terrible future anytime soon. A kind of film this intense, it has left me total goosebumps. Before Battle Royale video games were a thing, there was this movie, Battle Royale directed by Kinji Fukasaku, based on a popular-sel…More