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Battle Royale
JAPAN · 2000

Battle Royale

Kinji Fukasaku
totalitarianism youth rebellion survival competition government control moral ambiguity
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Synopsis

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

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