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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Battle Royale
Kinji Fukusaku. His son Kenta adapted the screenplay from the Koushun Takami novel. Takeshi Kitano, a director in his own right, appeared in the movie.
Shuya. Noriko apologizes for calling Nanahara by his first name "Shuya," a custom typically reserved for close friends in Japan.
3. Kitano the teacher, his daughter Shiori (whom we hear over the phone), and Yukiko Kitano (no relation), one of the two girls who get machine-gunned by Kiriyama after trying to call a truce.
Shiroiwa Jr. High. It doesn't come across in most of the subtitles, but the girl on the instructional video names their school right at the start of the video.
He distracted Sasagawa by spitting his chewing gum at him.. Sasagawa was actually threatening him with the gun when Kiriyama spit at him. When Sasagawa flinched, Kiriyama grabbed hold of the gun and mowed down the others, even as Sasagawa was still holding on to it.
sword. Kiriyama later uses the sword to behead Oda.
Nanahara's first day in seventh grade. Nanahara reveals this in his voiceover.
| The mathematical formula that class nerd Motobuchi yells when he threatens Noriko and Nanahara with his gun is supposed to be what? | "Battle Royale" Beginner Level
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The Quadratic Formula. Plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac, all over 2a. The subtitles don't handle this very well, but it's there.
yes. Ogawa and Yamamoto jumped to their deaths, Kuramoto and Yahagi hung themselves, and Yuko Sakaki jumped from the lighthouse onto the rocks below.
Izumi Kanai. Kanai was apparently the last of the group to die.
He hanged himself. Nanahara came home from school one day, to find his father hanging with an extension cord around his neck. On the floor he found an unraveled roll of toilet paper with a message on it, basically telling Nanahara to get out of there. We never really found out what this message was all about.
Nobu (Nanahara's best friend). Nobu cut him in the back of the leg and ran off, and Noriko picked up and hid the knife before Kitano saw it. Nanahara and Mitsuko were not seen in this scene.
3. First Kitano "disciplined" or murdered a girl who kept whispering during the instructional Battle Royale video. Then he killed Nobu. Perhaps this was as an example, because he started a commotion during the video, or maybe because he attacked Kitano earlier. Kitano set off Nobu's explosive collar. They also wheeled in the bullet-riddled corpse of one teacher who had voiced his opposition to Battle Royale.
Mitsuko (the pretty one with a reputation as a tramp). Mitsuko had been given a combat sickle, and after killing Megumi with it, added a stun gun to her arsenal. Eventually she killed Hirono and took her pistol, which became her weapon of choice. She killed four girls and two boys in all, before being taken down by Kiriyama, the deadliest of all the students on the island.
Nanahara. Yuko had been armed with a vial of poison powder, which she put into a dish of noodles intended for Nanahara, who was being nursed to health by the girls in the lighthouse. She wanted to kill him because she had seem him get into a struggle earlier with another boy, Oki. This involved a hatchet and lots of rolling around, and resulted in the former accidentally getting killed. She was convinced Nanahara had done it on purpose and wanted revenge. Unfortunately, as she was about to bring him the dish, Yuka came in, took it from her and ate it, thinking it was hers. Less than two minutes later she was dead. This set off a paranoia-induced shootout that left all the girls in the lighthouse dead, except Yuko, who promptly jumped off the lighthouse from sheer guilt anyway.
Chigusa. Chigusa was played by Chiaki Kuriyama, who played O-Ren, Ishii's teenage bodyguard Gogo Yubari in "Kill Bill". Do you remember the schoolgirl with the ball and chain? Interesting note: in both movies, her character inflicted a particularly painful death on boys who expressed an interest in sleeping with her.
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