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Battle Royale is a 2000 Japanese dystopian thriller film adapted from the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. It was the final film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It stars Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda and Takeshi Kitano. The film follows a group of junior high schoolers forced to fight to the death by the Japanese government. The film drew controversy and was banned or excluded from distribution in several countries. Toei even refused to sell the film to any United States distributor for a long time, because Toei was worried of potential controversy and lawsuits .The film was first screened in Tokyo on more than 200 screens on December 16, 2000, with an R-15 rating, which is rarely used in Japan, and during the first weekend it grossed ¥212 million . It was also the highest-grossing Japanese-language film for six weeks after its initial release, and it was later released in 22 countries worldwide, grossing $25,895,894. It received a global audience and critical acclaim. It is often regarded as one of Fukasaku's best films, and one of the best films of the 2000s. In 2009, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino praised Battle Royale as the best film he had seen in the past two decades.Fukasaku started working on a sequel, Battle Royale II: Requiem, but he died of prostate cancer on January 12, 2003, after shooting only one scene with Takeshi Kitano. His son Kenta Fukasaku, who wrote the screenplay for both films, completed the film in 2003. Battle Royale has been influential in global popular culture. Since the film's release, the term battle royale has been used to refer to a fictional narrative genre and/or mode of entertainment inspired by the film, where a select group of people are instructed to kill each off until there is a triumphant survivor. It has inspired numerous media, including films, manga, anime, comics, visual novels, and video games; the battle royale game genre, for example, is named after the film.
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