
If you know Japanese cinema, you know of a sub-genre characterized by buckets of blood. If you know buckets of blood, you've seen the film Battle Royale by Kinji Fukasaku . The whimsical tale of young students forced to fight to the death on a secret island. At the mercy of an insane script reminiscent of Lord of the Flies , the students participate in this deathmatch while their backstory/persona unfolds in dramatic brutality. I'm not personally into the whole Japanese horror gore film scene, but this classic is [...]