Battle Royale (4K Ultra HD)

"Lord of the Flies" meets Asian action cinema in director Kinji Fukasaku's violent and controversial thriller. In a strife-torn future Japan, 42 ninth-grade students are abducted by the government and taken to a remote island. There, under the new "Battle Royale" law, the teens are fitted with explosive collars, armed, and forced to fight each other to the death, with the last one alive allowed to return home. Aki Maeda, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Chiaki Kuriyama, and Takeshi Kitano star. 122 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: Japanese, English; Subtitles: English. In Japanese with English subtitles/Dubbed in English. Two-disc set. Region Free

Starring: Kou Shibasaki, Ko Shibasaki, Taro Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando, Sosuke Takaoka, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Hirohito Honda, Eri Ishikawa, Sayaka Ikeda, Tomomi Shimaki, Tamaki Mihara, Yukari Kanazawa, Yasuyo Mimura, Hitomi Hinata, Satomi Ishii, Aki Maeda, Ai Iwamura, Ai Maeda, Beat Takeshi, Shibasaki Kou, Sousuke Takaoka, Takeshi Kitano, Yamamoto Taru, Chiaki Kuriyama, Haruka Nomiyama, Satomi Hanamura, Ryo Kamiya, Aki Inoue

Director: Fukusaku Kenta, Hisao Nabeshima, Kataoka Kimio, Kobayashi Chie, Masao Sato, Masumi Okada, Teruo Kamaya