![]() ![]() The film was both controversial and successful, becoming one of the year's highest-grossing films as well as prompting condemnation by Japan's National Diet. ![]() ![]() In 2000, one year after publication, Battle Royale was adapted into a manga series, written by Takami himself, and a feature film. Upon publication in 1999, the novel became a surprise bestseller. The dystopian novel was previously entered into the 1997 Japan Horror Fiction Awards but was eventually rejected in the final round due to concerns over its depictions of students killing each other. The story tells of junior high school students who are forced to fight each other to the death in a program run by a fictional, fascist, totalitarian Japanese government known as the Republic of Greater East Asia. Originally completed in 1996, it was not published until 1999. Battle Royale ( Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル, Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru) is the first novel by the Japanese author Koushun Takami. ![]()
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