Battle Royale (2000)
Country: JAP
Technical: col 113m
Director: Kenji Fukasaku
Cast: 'Beat' Takeshi, Taro Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda
Synopsis:
In an alternative near future the Japanese government has passed a law allowing for the institution of a deadly game to take place on an uninhabited island, in which an entire class of school leavers are forced to kill each other to the last man 'to teach them a lesson'.
Review:
Not for the entertainment of the masses, this bloodbath, but purely to make the adult population feel better that something is being done about juvenile disrespect and the growing unemployed workforce. Its satirical intentions are therefore harder to fathom but doubtless target a very Japanese trait of ruthlessness. As the deaths mount up, offering a perv's paradise of sixteen year-old girls in uniform, frilly underwear and all, writhing under relentless Uzi-fire, it becomes harder to take the film as anything but a very black joke at the expense of reactionaries everywhere.
Country: JAP
Technical: col 113m
Director: Kenji Fukasaku
Cast: 'Beat' Takeshi, Taro Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda
Synopsis:
In an alternative near future the Japanese government has passed a law allowing for the institution of a deadly game to take place on an uninhabited island, in which an entire class of school leavers are forced to kill each other to the last man 'to teach them a lesson'.
Review:
Not for the entertainment of the masses, this bloodbath, but purely to make the adult population feel better that something is being done about juvenile disrespect and the growing unemployed workforce. Its satirical intentions are therefore harder to fathom but doubtless target a very Japanese trait of ruthlessness. As the deaths mount up, offering a perv's paradise of sixteen year-old girls in uniform, frilly underwear and all, writhing under relentless Uzi-fire, it becomes harder to take the film as anything but a very black joke at the expense of reactionaries everywhere.
Country: JAP
Technical: col 113m
Director: Kenji Fukasaku
Cast: 'Beat' Takeshi, Taro Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda
Synopsis:
In an alternative near future the Japanese government has passed a law allowing for the institution of a deadly game to take place on an uninhabited island, in which an entire class of school leavers are forced to kill each other to the last man 'to teach them a lesson'.
Review:
Not for the entertainment of the masses, this bloodbath, but purely to make the adult population feel better that something is being done about juvenile disrespect and the growing unemployed workforce. Its satirical intentions are therefore harder to fathom but doubtless target a very Japanese trait of ruthlessness. As the deaths mount up, offering a perv's paradise of sixteen year-old girls in uniform, frilly underwear and all, writhing under relentless Uzi-fire, it becomes harder to take the film as anything but a very black joke at the expense of reactionaries everywhere.