and the hearts-and-flowers of Shuya and Noriko, who are befriended by Mitsuko, a survivor of a previous Battle Royale. But Fukasaku is far more himself with such scenes as the one in which a band ...

The males, including the villainous Kitano, all exist to protect her, and because of this, a lot of fans feel like Noriko does not deserve to survive the events of Battle Royale. Even by the time ...

It’s three years since he and Noriko Nakagawa (Aki Maeda, ditto) survived the Battle Royale Survival Program, and they’ve since dedicated their lives to the “struggle.” Over a sudden burst ...

By the time that they have left the game, Shuya, Noriko and Kawada aren’t thinking ... questioning that Shuya is the main character of Battle Royale, but the story often takes us away from ...