[iSeymore]

Battle Royale (2000); Awesome movie, equally violent, currently reading the 1999 hit novel of the same title by Japanese author, Koushun Takami, I prefer the novel over the film, there's a lot of changes to the movie in comparison. One thing that got to me in terms of changes is

-The male character, who is the main antagonist of the novel, movie, and manga series, Kazuo Kiriyama joined Shiroiwa Junior Highschool the year prior to the story's time-line, in the film however, he is a random transfer student and is already awaiting the rest of Shiroiwa junior highschool third year class B before the program commences, also, the second transfer student (The only transfer student in the novel and is on the bus ride headed toward "The study trip") is also sitting alongside Kiriyama in the classroom on the island.

Great movie though, but would have been much better if it was a lot more novel accurate.