This week's movie, Battle Royale, is harder to find. But you can find it on NetFlix: http://www.netflix.com/?mqso=80015652
Known as Batoru Rowaiaru in its native Japan, where it's won a ton of awards. It was deemed too controversial to be theatrically released in the US.
Indeed, this is NOT a movie for the kiddies!
It takes place in the near future. After Japan has a near apocalyptic economic crisis, they pass the "Battle Royale Act" as way to thin the herd. Every year they drop a very surprised middle school class on an abandoned island, give each kid a survival bag complete with a weapon of some sort, and let them battle it out till there's only one alive.
This movie is not as gory as your typical Hollywood slasher flick. But it is very violent.
Fun to watch if you have even the least bit of schadenfreude.
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