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thank you google
I remember hearing a while back about a Japanese movie where a group of schoolchildren are taken to an island and are forced to fight to the death. I forgot the name, and forgot where I heard about it, but the extremism of the premise stuck with me.
Thanks to Google, I have my answer. The film is Battle Royale.
"In Japan in the near future, unemployment rates are soaring, as are levels of teenage delinquency and truancy. In order to address these issues of teenage rebellion, the Government introduces a new law – the Battle Royale Act – to restore the rights of adults and to attempt to re-educate school students. Under the terms of the Battle Royale Act, each year, one randomly chosen Grade 9 (15-year-old) class is chosen from the thousands in Japan to take part in the eponymous survival game – Battle Royale.
All the classmates are transferred onto an abandoned island, and have three days to kill all of their classmates to win the opportunity to return to society. If more than one classmate is still alive at the end of the last day, everyone dies. Each player is given a backpack containing water, a little food, a map of the island, and a randomly selected 'weapon', which could be anything from a gun to a scythe."
Featuring Takeshi "Beat" Kitano as a seventh grade teacher.
This and Series 7 might make a good double feature. Labels: media commentary |
Tuesday, July 02, 2002
12:40 PM
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