Battle Royale (2000)
| director: | Kinji Fukasaku |
| release-year: | 2000 |
| genres: | horror, comedy |
| countries: | Japan |
| languages: | Japanese |
Beat Takeshi really hates kids, so he sends them all to an island to brutally murder each other.
He isn't sure if they'll do a good job, so he also sends in an older kid with an uzi and infinite ammo.
The kids go about their regular day-to-day high school drama, but now armed with a significant quantity of mortally dangerous weaponry and a less than tenuous grasp on the concepts of game theory.
Some kids survive, but that's really not the point.
Eight years later, Suzanne Collins would write The Hunger Games and pretend it was inspired by ancient Greek mythology and not Beat Takeshi splatter-horror. Yeah, sure.
As Agent Mulder would say: trustno1.
