Battle Royale (2000) Film Review, a movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku, and starring Takeshi Kitano, Tatsaya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama, Takashi Tsukamoto, and Sôsuke Takaoka.

Before there was The Hunger Games and the popular video game genre, the term “battle royale” applied to the popular 2000 film. Director Kinji Fukusaku’s dystopian thriller casts a wide shadow over ...

Katherine is a Horror Features author for Collider, but loves movies in (almost) all shapes and genres. She went to school in Virginia for English and Film Studies before heading out to Las Vegas. She ...

Feb 29, 2012 - Before there was Hunger Games, there was Battle Royale. Check out the making of a pivotal scene from the seminal teenage deathmatch movie, arriving soon on Blu-ray.

Dystopian death games orchestrated by authoritarian governments have been a staple of science fiction ever since The Most Dangerous Game popularized the "man hunting man for sport" trope in 1924. In ...