BATTLE ROYALE
Cutting class
“Taxi! Take me anywhere off the island.”
★★★★★
EXTRAS ★★★★☆
RELEASED 26 APRIL 2000/2003 | 18 | Blu-ray (4K/standard)
Directors Kinji and Kenta Fukasaku
Cast Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Ai Maeda, Shugo Oshinari, Takeshi Kitano
Because it spawned an ongoing global subgenre, it’s difficult to remember quite how shocking Battle Royale was when it hit the UK 20 years ago, but it remains bracingly violent.