Battle Royale (Japan: Kinji Fukasaku, 2000)

Battle Royale (Japan: Kinji Fukasaku, 2000: 114 mins)

"Battle Royale." Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)

Bowen, Chuck. "Battle Royale." Slant (May 20, 2012)

Egan, Mike. "An Analysis of Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale." The Jet Fuel Review Blog (March 12, 2015)

Erickson, Steve. "How Battle Royale Became a Cult Hit and Capitalized on the Hunger Games."

Koski, Genevieve, et al. "Battle Royale / Hunger Games Series (Pt. 1)." The Next Picture Show #3 (November 24, 2015) ["With the final installment of the blockbuster YA series THE HUNGER GAMES hitting theaters, we look back to the material many accused HUNGER GAMES author Suzanne Collins of ripping off: 2000's BATTLE ROYALE, a hyper-violent Japanese film adaptation of a hyper-violent manga about kids killing kids in a government-mandated slaughter. In this episode, we get into the many similarities – and many more differences – between the two, as well as BATTLE ROYALE's reputation and place in the larger scope...]

---. "Battle Royale / Hunger Game Series (Pt. 2)." The Next Picture Show (November 24, 2015)

Lack, Jonathan R. "Hana-bi, Battle Royale, and a Theory of Transgressive Transcendence." Fade to Lack (July 30, 2014)

---. "The Hunger Games Versus Battle Royale – A Critical Analysis of Two Similar Works: Act One – Comparing the Original Books." Fade to Lack (March 20, 2012)

---. "The Hunger Games Versus Battle Royale – A Critical Analysis of Two Similar Works: Act Two – Why Hunger Games is the Dumb American Version of Battle Royale." Fade to Lack (March 21, 2012)

---. "The Hunger Games Versus Battle Royale – A Critical Analysis of Two Similar Works: Act Three – My ultimate conclusions on this whole sordid affair...." Fade to Lack (March 22, 2012)

Rothman, Joshua. "The Real Hunger Games: Battle Royale." Culture Desk (August 3, 2012)

Scott, A.O. "A Field Trip to End All Field Trips, Literally, for These Ninth Graders." The New York Times (May 24, 2012)

Battle Royale (A video essay from Roger Ebert's Far Flung Correspondents) from Michael Mirasol on Vimeo.