A group of high school students forced to fight to the death, some embrace the game while others try to escape.
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In this uncensored and unrated Director's Cut of the cult classic, a group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off with three days to kill each other until one survives - or they all die. The story focuses on a few of the students and how they cope. Some, like the psychotic Kiriyama or the hyper-sexual Mistuko, decide to play the game. Others, like Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada, try to find a ways to get off the island without violence. But as the violence increases and the numbers fall, can Shuya and his classmates survive?
"Long before The Hunger Games, there was the Japanese film Battle Royale, adapted by legendary director Kinji Fukasaku from the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. The plot is set in a parallel reality where a totalitarian fascist Japan, as a measure to curb juvenile crime, forces a group of 42 high school students to kill each other on a deserted island until only one remains. As controversial as it is relevant today, the film has inspired numerous science fiction movies about social dystopias, and its stylized violence has influenced filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino."