Battle Royale / Batoru Rowaiaru / バトル・ロワイアル

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BATTLE ROYALE (2000) dir. KINJI FUKASAKU

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thinking about yoshitoki kuninobu breaks my heart and makes me giggle bc why am i told he’s an orphan and has a crush on a girl and then they fucking obliterate him within the first like 30 pages

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Mistuko / Battle Royale

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Tatsuya Fujiwara returns to his old role for a new Kaiji movie

The movie "Kaiji: Life Revenge Game" will be released nationwide on January 29, 2027

After 7 years since the previous film in the series, Kaiji returns to the screen with the fourth film, while the death game space is still buzzing.

Based on a 1996 manga Kaiji by Nobuyuki Fukumoto, Kaiji tells the story of Kaiji Itou, who takes on debts after graduating from high school by spending his days gambling, vandalizing and drinking booze. His life no better two years later when a debt collector arrives to collect money. Kaiji gets conned to participate in a gambling game where he has to fight for his survival.

In Kaiji: Life Revenge Game, Kaiji after returning to living at the bottom of society despite his life-or-death struggle with the Teiai Group, finds himself confronted by the young Teiai Group representative, Kazuya Hyodo.

In each installment Tatsuya Fujiwara plays Kaiji Itou, but you'll also spot a familiar face of Taro Yamamoro, best known for his role of Shogo Kawada in the Kinji Fukasaku film Battle Royale, where Tatsuya Fujiwara is also known from for playing the main role of Shuya Nanahara.

Fans of Battle Royale, Squid Game, Liar Game and Alice in Borderland might want to check this out!

Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009) ➤ Trailer Kaiji 2: Life Recovery Game (2011) ➤ Trailer Kaiji: Final Game (2020) ➤ Trailer

Kaiji's Official Website

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Here are some ideas I had for Battle Royale AU concepts. (My only drawback is that I don’t know much about the other characters except for the main 4 characters of the first novel/movie.)

1 - BATTLE ROYALE X ALICE IN BORDERLANDS (The plot in General is that the Class of the first novel find themselves in the Borderlands in Japan and must survive the games in order to escape and survive plot wise mainly.)

2 - BATTLE ROYALE X ASSASSINATION CLASSROOM. (It would be a Swap AU where it would be the Battle Royale students having to be Taught by Koro-Sentai minus the Death game for the most part plot wise.)

3 - AS THE GODS WILL X BATTLE ROYALE (I didn’t read this manga fully but the basic idea is that it would be the students playing the death games from the manga/original movie aka “As the Gods will.”)

4 - BATTLE ROYALE X THE 19TH FLOOR (The 19th floor is a Chinese death game drama if you’re curious. I highly recommend it as well if you want anything new to watch death game related.) (The basic idea is that the students of Battle Royale are to play the death games of the Chinese Drama “The 19th floor”)

5 - BATTLE ROYALE X MAFIA/WEREWOLF (it would Basiclly be them playing Mafia/Werewolf like those Japanese death game films.)

Thoughts and thx?! Feedback is appreciated! I wish your day the best :3 :D

I would love to see them enter the Borderland, but I think it would require a visual media, like a movie/show or a comic, to work.

Unfortunately that's the only one I'm familiar enough with so I can't personally give you any thoughts on the other ones!

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BOY #6 KIRIYAMA - DEAD

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crazy how only movie watchers will never know that mitsuko was raped by three older men when she was nine and thats why shes like that

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Chiaki Kuriyama for Fashion Post Photographed by Yusuke Abe

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Ko Shibasaki's artist visuals for her EP release titled 『邂逅』

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The most horrific thing in Battle Royale to me is that everyone in the Program aren't strangers, but classmates who have known each other for years before the Program started. They've formed friendships with each other, have their own roles among the class, and we see it all fall apart as soon as they get to the island. They get completely turned against each other, and each of them have the realization that they didn't actually know any of these people. They might have been classmates, maybe even friends, but that doesn't stop them from trying to kill each other

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Stills from Battle Royale II: Requiem

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"Dies Irae" playing over the Toei ocean logo? You know what you are in for...

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Starting on the horror antag series with Kitano and Mitch. I shall finish all of them. I must.

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Chiaki Kuriyama Vogue Italy 2005