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10+ Years Later: Checking-in On The Cult Status Of BATTLE ROYALE

More than ten years ago, my infatuation with surreal, thought provoking, challenging and unique anime was what led to my initial discovery and viewing of Kinji Fukasaku’s controversial and vastly influential final film Battle Royale. The anime I refer to...

Russia Has A Hunger Battle Games Royale To Call Its Own With DANCES TO DEATH

If imitation truly is the highest form of flattery than the makers of The Hunger Games must be feeling, well, they must be feeling just as flattered as the makers of Battle Royale were by The Hunger Games when that...

Race From Death With Full Trailer For Iguchi's LIVE

Machine Girl director Iguchi Noboru has been going through something of a personal reinvention process over the past couple years, not abandoning the genre world that is his stock in trade but certainly looking to expand the palette a bit...

RINGU Director Teases His MONSTERZ

Nakata Hideo - director of the original Japanese versions of The Ring and Dark Water - returns to screens in 2014 with Monsterz. A remake of 2010 Korean film Haunters, the film stars Battle Royale's Fujiwara Tatsuya as a powerfully...