Battle royale [videorecording]
2002
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Kinji Fukasaku directs this Japanese action thriller adapted from the novel by Koushun Takami. With schoolchildren all over the country growing increasingly delinquent, the totalitarian government takes decisive action and introduces the Battle Royale Act. The Act sets forth a plan whereby a class will be chosen at random and flown to a remote island where each student will then be given a weapon and set loose to fight their classmates, all the while knowing that only one of their number will be allowed to leave the island alive. When Class B of Zentsuji Middle School are chosen to take part in the massacre, the different students quickly take sides against each other, but Shuya (Tatsuya Fujiwara) and Noriko (Aki Maeda) form an alliance in an attempt to survive the experience together.
Main title:
Battle royale [videorecording] / producer, Masao Sato; producer, Masumi Okada; producer, Teruo Kamaya; producer, Tetsu Kayama.
Author:
Fukasaku, Kinji, directorAmano, Masamichi, musicBÕito Takeshi, actorYamamoto, Taro, actorAndo, Masanobu, actorTakami, Koushun, book author
Imprint:
Tartan, 2002.
Collation:
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd, col.
Notes:
Starring: Takeshi Kitano.Region 0, 1 disc(s), Disc format DVD 5 single layer, Interactive menus, Scene access, Enhanced for WideScreen TV, Languages (Japanese), Subtitles (English), Bonus footage, Trailers, Filmographies, Image gallery, Cast/Filmaker notes.Made in 2000.Credits: music, Masamichi Amano.DVDN.Dolby Digital.Based on the novel by Koushun Takami.Credits: music, Masamichi Amano; cinematographer, Katsumi Yanagijima.Credits: director, Kinji Fukasaku; writer, Kenta Fukasaku; music, Masamichi Amano; cinematographer, Katsumi Yanagijima.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano, Taro Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando, Sôsuke Takaoka, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Hirohito Honda, Eri Ishikawa, Sayaka Ikeda, Tomomi Shimaki, Aki Maeda, Kô Shibasaki, Chiaki Kuriyama.
Audience:
BBFC code: 18.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
791.437GMVD 8328
Language:
JapaneseEnglish
Index terms:
vvv DVD Foreign Language Films
BRN:
1030776
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