Reexperience the cult phenomenon that forever changed the landscape of genre cinema. 

Winner of the Popularity Prize at the Japanese Academy Awards, Battle Royale tells the story of a bizarre government act designed as a deterrent to juvenile crime. Once a year, an entire class of secondary students are abducted, fitted with explosive collars, stranded on an island, supplied with a random assortment of weapons, and given three days to battle each other to the death. This time, their spiteful ex-teacher, played by the incomparable Beat Takeshi (Sonatine), oversees the mayhem. 

Battle Royale is the last film of Kinji Fukasaku, a prolific director who worked in a wide variety of genres, from yakuza films to historical epics to science fiction, fantasy, and horror.