BATTLE ROYALE 1 - 2002

Plot:
The prologue title card reads:

"At the dawn of the millennium, the nation collapsed. At fifteen percent unemployment, ten million were out of work. 800,000 students boycotted school. The adults lost confidence and, fearing the youth, eventually passed the Millennium Educational Reform Act, AKA the BR Act...."

 

The film concentrates on Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a charismatic young boy living in Kanagawa Prefecture. After his mother abandons him and his father commits suicide, he becomes disillusioned with life. The rest of his classmates are similarly disillusioned, and have little respect for authority. Shuya's best friend, Yoshitoki "Nobu" Kuninobu (Yukihiro Kotani), attacks their teacher Kitano (Takeshi Kitano), but runs away before he can be identified. Noriko Nakagawa (Aki Maeda), a sweet, reserved young girl who happens to witness the incident, hides the knife that Nobu has just attacked Kitano with. Kitano, frustrated, resigns.

Movie :
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Subs : English hardsubbed

Directed by	Kinji Fukasaku
Produced by	Kenta Fukasaku Kimio Kataoka Chie Kobayashi Toshio Nabeshima
Written by	Kenta Fukasaku Koushun Takami (Screenplay)
Starring	Tatsuya Fujiwara Aki Maeda Taro Yamamoto Takeshi Kitano Masanobu Ando
Music by	Masamichi Amano
Cinematography	Katsumi Yanagishima
Editing by	Hirohide Abe
Distributed by	Toei
Release date(s)	December 16, 2000 (2000-12-16)
Running time	114 minutes 122 minutes (Director's Cut)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese