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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Battle Royale |
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In a dystopic alternate-history Japan, a randomly-selected class of ninth-graders are put on a deserted island (an annual custom) and told to kill each other within three days until one survivor is left, or they all die. The bulk of the story can be seen as a series of vignettes or encounters which invariably result in the death of one or more of the students, as they gradually eliminate each other; friendships fall apart, relationships are tested, and hidden agendas come to light as the students each deal with the kill-or-be-killed scenario. Some characters choose to "play the game" and kill their classmates; others try to form alliances; others choose to take their own lives; and others try to find a way to fight against their captors and escape. The main character, Shuya Nanahara, has only two things in mind--to protect Noriko, the girl his now-dead best friend had a crush on, and to seek out the friends he trusts so they can team up and figure a way out.
--Mike Jonas, Resident Scholar
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Forty-two students from a Japanese high school are placed on a desert island and forced by the government to kill each other until only one remains. They have three days, if there is no winner by then, everyone will die.
--Julie, Resident Scholar
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BATTLE ROYALE is a movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku in 2000. The picture earned seven nominations for the japanese Academy Awards.
In a few years, the japanese population will fear its own children who have become so violent that the governement will have to establish the Battle Royale law. Every year, an entire class of students will be left alone on a Pacific island. For three days, they will be forced to kill each other because only one of them, the last survivor, will be allowed to come back to civilization.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 70%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- game where people are hunted
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
Island?
Yes
Island:
- Mean guy who wants to hunt/mutate
- stranded
- Pacific Island
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 3 ()
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- dropped from large heights
- hanging
- decapitated
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Japanese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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