With "The Hunger Games" mania, it's no longer just edgy auteurs who can get bootleg copies of "Battle Royale," the controversial hard-core 2000 film that was considered unsafe for teens in Japan ...

Battle Royale (2000) Film Review, a movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku, and starring Takeshi Kitano, Tatsaya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama, Takashi Tsukamoto, and Sôsuke Takaoka.

Influenced by many different genres, the director took his expansive love of movies and turned it into a career, starting ...

‘Battle Royale’ Star Causes Wild Scene in Japan’s Parliament Over Controversial Immigration Bill Actor-turned-liberal political leader Taro Yamamoto hurled himself at fellow lawmakers ...

One place where "Battle Royale II: Requiem" is not likely to unspool is Dubya's White House screening room. A part poetic, part action-filled bulletfest in which the "terrorists" are the good guys ...

Even a decade on, Battle Royale is still a shockingly brutal film. A savage satire on a cruelly competitive Japanese education system, it’s unsurprising that the country’s government hated its ...

Eight years before The Hunger Games books (later a movie franchise) came Battle Royale, set in a future in which unruly behaviour earns you a golden pass to even worse behaviour. Japanese master ...

CW Eyes ‘Hunger Games’-Esque Japanese Feature ‘Battle Royale’ The youth-skewing network is exploring rights to the 2000 film for a potential series adaptation.

Quentin Tarantino is an outspoken fan of Kinji Fukasaku’s gruesome horror film Battle Royale. Like a lot of moviegoers, the director saw certain similarities to the cult classic in a certain ...

Battle Royale Collection In a nightmarish near future, school children in Japan are forced to compete in the ultimate reality show: a battle royale where the last one standing is the winner.

With "The Hunger Games" mania, it's no longer just edgy auteurs who can get bootleg copies of "Battle Royale," the controversial hard-core 2000 film that was considered unsafe for teens in Japan ...