Revealing mistake: Many times throughout the movie, people are shot and they bleed, but their clothes don't have holes from where the bullets hit them. The most noticeable examples are when the teacher is shot at the end, and when the big gun fight between the girls breaks out in the lighthouse.
Battle Royale (2000)
Plot summary
Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takeshi Kitano, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
Battle Royale is based on a book by Koushun Takami. In the near-future Japan, the nation collapsed, with 15% Unemployment, 10 million people are out of work, and 800,000 students boycotting school. The adults lost confidence and fearing the youth, passed a new law. The Millenium Educational Reform Act, also known as the BR Act.
The BR Act sends one class, chosen by impartial lottery, to a deserted island, provides them with weapons and tells them to kill all their classmates. The last one alive can go home. To make sure the rules are kept to and that students don't linger in one area too long, each student is wearing a collar, which monitors their pulse, sends information back to the HQ of their position, and if necessary, exploads killing who ever is wearing it. Each hour a new area of the island is deemed a Danger Zone, whoever is in there has their collars expload. If no one dies within a 24 hour period, all collars expload.
This years Battle Royale features the class 3B from Shiroiwa Junior High, with one student who stabbed their teacher a year before. This teacher is now the head of the Battle Royale. The story focusses around how all of the students cope, with Shuya, Noriko and Shogo trying to survive, Kazuo who signed up for fun, Shinji trying to escape and Hiroki looking for his best friend and the girl he loves.
More mistakes in Battle Royale
Teacher Kitano: So today's lesson is, you kill each other off till there's only one left. Nothing's against the rules.
More trivia for Battle Royale
Question: I have heard the following story about this film: one of the assistant producers met with Quentin Tarantino. Quentin talked about how much he liked the film, and the producer asked him which bit he liked best. He replied that he liked the lighthouse scene the best, and the assistant producer laughed out loud, and said that the main producer would be amused to hear him say that - because he pinched the scene from Reservoir Dogs. Is this really true?
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Chosen answer: Specific aspects of direction may be from Reservoir Dogs, but the scene itself plays out almost exactly the same as in the book.