Battle Royale (film)

"[to Noriko Nakagawa] I'm weak, I'm useless, but I'll stay by your side; I'll protect you."

"What's wrong with killing? Everybody's got their reasons."

"There's a way out of this game. Kill yourselves together, here, now. If you can't do that, then don't trust anyone... just run."

"So today's lesson is...you kill each other off until there's only one left. Nothing's against the rules!"

"Each weapon is different. Not just guns or knives either! It is random so maybe you will get lucky, maybe not. It eliminates natural advantages. [picks up axe] Oooh. This one is SUPER lucky."

"Could you kill your best friend?"

"One Dead. 41 To Go."

"42 Students, Three Days, One Survivor, No Rules."

"Today, I killed my best friend."

"Have you ever killed your best friend?"

"Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins came from a military family. But Battle Royale director Kinji Fukasaku actually survived World War II. He was just a teenager himself when he was put to work in a munitions factory in Japan. "It was bombed, a lot," Hendrix says. "And one of his jobs, at the age of 15, was to take a wheelbarrow around the factory and pick up body parts after bombing raids." The experience left Fukasaku with a lasting abhorrence of war — and a profound sense of betrayal by grownups that persisted into his own adulthood. And it fueled his decision to film Battle Royale, which was both highly controversial and a massive theatrical hit when it was released in Japan, despite a rating that kept young teenagers from seeing it. That irritated the director, says Hendrix. "He gave a very famous statement to the press where he said, 'Kids, if you have the courage, you can sneak in. And I encourage you to do so.'""

"Hendrix says one of the most important things Battle Royale and The Hunger Games share is the idea of teenagers trapped in a ruined society, coerced by grownups into doing horrible things. Even so, they both make it clear — there's nothing more utopian than a teenager. Even in a dystopia."

"Tatsuya Fujiwara — Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)"

"Aki Maeda — Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)"

"Taro Yamamoto — Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)"

"Chiaki Kuriyama — Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)"

"Kou Shibasaki — Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)"

"Beat Takeshi — Teacher Kitano"