Released Date:
2000-12-16
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (130103 Reviews)
Director:
Kinji FukasakuKoushun Takami (novel)
Kenta Fukasaku (screenplay)
Forty-two students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die. The movie focuses on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mitsuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and his classmates to survive?
Released Date:
2003-07-05
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
134 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
4.7 (15373 Reviews)
Kenta Fukasaku
Norio Kida
Koushun Takami (characters)
Three years after the events in "Battle Royale," Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara)is a well-known terrorist bent on bringing down the government. In response, they order the creation of the "Battle Royale 2" program, and send a class of junior-high students to catch and kill him.
Released Date:
2006-06-17
Languages:
Japanese, English
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
126 min
IMDB Ratings:
(21272 Reviews)
Director:
Shèsuke KanekoTsugumi Ohba (comic)
Takeshi Obata (comic)
Tetsuya Oishi (screenplay)
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world.
Released Date:
2006-11-03
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan, USA
Runtime:
141 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (10721 Reviews)
Director:
Shèsuke KanekoTsugumi Ohba (comic)
Takeshi Obata (comic)
Tetsuya Oishi (screenplay)
In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?
Released Date:
2010-02-20
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
118 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (456 Reviews)
Director:
Isao YukisadaGenres:
DramaShèichi Yoshida (based on the novel by)
Isao Yukisada (screenplay)
Four youths share a two bedroom apartment in a corner of Tokyo. A series of assault cases occur in the same district. Eighteen year old Satoru, a male prostitute, joins them as a new house mate. Their daily life slowly starts to change.
Released Date:
2014-09-13
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
134 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (3717 Reviews)
Director:
Keishi OhtomoNobuhiro Watsuki (manga)
Kiyomi Fujii (screenplay)
Keishi Ohtomo (screenplay)
Shishio has set sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the Meiji government and return Japan to chaos, carrying Kaoru with him. In order to stop him in time, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.
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