Battle Royale (バトル ・ ロワイアル, Batoru Rowaiaru) is a 2000 Japanese action-thriller movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku, with a screenplay composed by Kenta Fukasaku, based on the 1999 story by Koushun Takami. Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarō Yamamoto, as well as Takeshi Kitano, the movie complies with a group of jr high-school students that are compelled to combat to the fatality by the Japanese totalitarian government. The movie attracted debate, and also was prohibited or left out from distribution in numerous nations; Toei Business declined to offer the movie to any USA representative for over a decade as a result of problems regarding prospective controversy and lawsuits, up until Anchor Bay Entertainment eventually acquired the film in 2010 for a direct-to-video release.The movie was first screened in Tokyo on even more than 200 screens on December 16, 2000, with an R15+ rating, which is seldom used in Japan. It was the highest-grossing Japanese-language movie for 6 weeks afte...