Followed by
Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka (2003)
Remade as
"Sangre fría" (2004)
- Argentina remade "BR" as a TV miniseries.
Battle Royale (2011)
References
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
- Setting of an island as hunting ground, give the hunted only one weapon and a certain time as mark of the winner.
The Third Man (1949)
- The title of this 1949 Noir-classic is quite visibly displayed on a laptop computer screen in one scene.
Ohayô (1959)
Lord of the Flies (1963)
"The Prisoner: The Chimes of Big Ben (#1.1)" (1967)
- The song during the first announcement is the same song played during a similar P.A. announcement in the first episode of "The Prisoner."
Escape from New York (1981)
The Running Man (1987)
Lord of the Flies (1990)
Wedlock (1991)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Kiriyama coming out of the fire with similar music playing to the T-1000 coming out of the fire.
Falling Down (1993)
- When Kitano threatens to shoot Shuya, Shuya fires at him. Before falling, Kitano reveals his pistol is merely a water gun. The same thing happened to Michael Douglas in "Falling Down."
Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Air/Magokoro wo, kimi ni (1997)
Referenced in
Dog Soldiers (2002)
Chek law dak gung (2002)
- The training that the assasins-to-be go through is a very similar last-(wo)man-standing/kill-your-best-friend-to-survive type of situation.
Clock Tower 3 (2002) (VG)
Tokyo 10+01 (2003)
- The whole movie is a big play off of the movie Battle Royale. They even mention it in the movie itself. Also Higuchinsky was a huge fan of BR and Kinji Fukasaku.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
- long haired character holding sub-machine gun with eyes bleeding
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
- Gogo Yubari's mini-sword is a tribute to Takako Chigusa's jackknife; Chiaki Kuriyama wears the same schoolgirl outfit in both films; The scene where Go-Go stabs a man in the crotch and asks him if he still wants to "penetrate her" is a homage to Chiaki Kuriyama's infamous scene in 'Battle Royale';
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Posters in bedroom
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
- When explaining the origin of B.R.s name, Naylor says that everyone who knew is dead, and an image appears with red Xs covering the faces of the people in the photograph. In the japanese movie Battle Royale, an identical sequence was used, and the premise of the movie is a survival story where 48 players are forced to kill each other until only one is left. Even his initials match with the films name.
Wild Seven (2006)
- Two characters watch Battle Royale and discuss one of the fight scenes.
Accepted (2006)
- mentioned several times
Doomed (2007) (V)
- group of people trapped on island with the same elements: safe zones, random weapons, death announcements
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007) (V)
- A character wears a t-shirt with the 'BR' logo.
Juno (2007)
- For a brief second in Juno's room there is a pin with the Battle Royale "BR" logo
"Lost: Confirmed Dead (#4.2)" (2008)
- Movie-poster in the dead boys room where Miles conducts his "exorcism" in a flashback
Conversations with T.F. Mou (2010)
- Mentioned, Fukasaku's themes of and anger at human injustice is compared with Mou's.
Featured in
Wild Seven (2006)
- heard playing in background
Spoofed in
Tokyo 10+01 (2003)
- The references also are meant to spoof it. The movie was actually based off of Battle Royale.
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