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Battle Royale

novel by Takami
Also known as: “Batoru rowaiaru”
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    …horror novel Batoru rowaiaru (1999; Battle Royale), in which junior high-school students are forced to fight each other to the death on a remote Japanese island under the auspices of a government-sponsored program; the TV series Lost (2004–10), about a group of plane-crash survivors on a remote island in the…

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