Yes this is a foreign movie and yes it is subtitled in Japanese.
Not the best film I've seen but clearly an interesting one considering the subject matter and subtext of the movie as it comments on, in a metaphorical sense, the Japanese treatment of their children in school at least this is a lot of things I've read about it. This is also movie that laid a lot ground work for Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games and it's much more violent than that movie and more along the lines of the violence in the book.
The one major difference between this movie and The Hunger Games (the movie and book) is that the characters in The Hunger Games you get know and thus really care about them as the "games" begin for them. But in Battle Royale there is no getting to know the characters at all which really hurts the over all movie because as the kids start to die I had no feeling or empathy for them. They were just 2-D characters with a three day life span. You've got to make me care about people if you want me to fully invest into what you're doing. It's not like there wasn't plenty of time between the killings to invest into some characterization, doing that would have made the circumstances of what happens later have more effect.
If your into to watching controversial movies and banned movies (I am) then this will be a movie worth checking out. I still would like to know how that one kid in the movie never ran out of bullets for his Uzi? Ever time he was on screen he spraying everything known to man with bullets yet his gun never seemed to run out bullets, ever. Little things that like that can really hurt a movie trying to say something because it just doesn't make sense for a gun to be like that.
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