Product Details

• Actors: Shin Aomori, David Arnold, Ralph Brownewell, Pierre Brulatour, Hadley Eure
• Directors: Ichirô Itano
• Writers: Ichirô Itano
• Producers: Kyôko Ôgushi, Tatsumi Yamashita, Yukio Kikukawa
• Format: Animated, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: ANIMEIGO
• DVD Release Date: September 23, 2003
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000BV21C
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,162 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Battle Royal High School" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

BATTLE ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Uhh, you guys are mistaken, at least I'm pretty sure., April 1, 2004

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Mesencephalon (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Battle Royal High School [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Battle Royal High School has NOTHING to do w/ the live-action movie Battle Royale ...

http://www.fpsmagazine.com/review/brhs.shtml

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low quality, March 18, 2005

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M. Gusella (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Battle Royal High School (DVD)

and hey, all you bozos out there, I've got news for you...

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE KOUSHUN TAKAMI NOVEL "BATTLE ROYALE", THE MANGA BASED ON THE NOVEL, OR THE SUBSEQUENT MOVIE DIRECTED BY KINJI FUKASAKU

so stop being a bunch of morons comparing this to any of the above.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rebuild Your Own Girlfriend, January 2, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Battle Royal High School [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Plot Synopsis

A simple story about a high school karate master possessed by a demon lord who is his doppleganger and wants to enslave the world by destroying a demonic fairy who also wants to enslave the world and who's also possessing a demon hunter, and the high-tech temporal security officer who's trying to stop most of them. Or at least some of them. And there's also a love triangle.

Review

Here we've got a demonic fairy queen (she's worse than she sounds) and her minions, the lord of the dark world, a time traveling agent in a battlesuit, a high school Karate student who likes to wear a jaguar mask when fighting (hmm, that sounds familiar...), and his girlfriend. Pretty standard fare, eh? More or less. This one has all the old elements, it just has more of them in one place at one time that you'd usually expect. Battle Royal High School has a mildly interesting plot, a smattering of humor, and loads of action. Nothing particularly special, but the particularly weird plot, the sheer volume of action (and blood--it's plenty gory), and animation well above par set this one apart. Also look for a very unusual and well animated scene with our hero reassembling his girlfriend from the inside out (don't see THAT every day...). There are some passable performances in the dubbed version, particularly the main character.

Overall, Battle Royale High school is just another martial arts/demon invasion action horror story, but it's quite well done, has lots of action, and has a few ususual bits that really stand out. Check it out if you like that kinda thing, but probably not worth the time otherwise (though I'd reccommend almost anybody with the stomach for it see the girlfriend reconstruction at least once).