Survivor with Guns!
In a film that no one else could or would ever make, Kinju Fukasaku brings to us 42 high school students, left deserted on an isolated island, to kill each other off, in a last-man-standing scenerio, for a chance at freedom! And this, they call, Battle Royale!

The idea itself is pretty mundane, this could be another production of Lord of the Flies, Japanese style. BUT, the sight of 15 year old girls in school uniforms, petticoats peeping out from under their short skirts, long white socks reaching up to their knees, wielding deadly sickles, topped with a demented leer. Well...*cough*

Battle Royale gets a 3.5 out of a 5 Smiling Sun rating. One Smiling Sun for the girls in school uniforms, one Smiling Sun for the dashing leading man, Taro Yamamoto as Kawada, and one Smiling Sun for the sickle. And a half Smiling Sun for the training video the 42 students had to sit through.