194: Battle Royale

Chelsea and James discuss the influential death game genre sensation Battle Royale.

SOURCES:

New York Times, Oct. 12 1999 “Japan’s Troubling Trend: Rising Teenage Crime”

CNN, March 14th 1998 “Teen Violence Rising in Japan”

Washington Post, February 10th, 2000 “Japan’s Violent Turn”

Washington Post, August 3rd 1981 “Japanese Schools Suffer Wave of Classroom Violence”

Dazed, December 2nd 2020 “How Japan’s 90s Teen Delinquency Crisis Inspired a Wave of Killer Movies”

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