If you loved If You Were Young: Rage, try Battle Royale
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Kinji Fukasaku, and they both carry the raw mood tag, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to If You Were Young: Rage, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Battle Royale is
Abandoned island summer air thick with gunfire a school bus idles. Ninth-grade students stand nervously armed. Kinji Fukasaku directs this thriller.

