Author Koushun Takami released Battle Royale in 1999, a refined version of ... This, more than anything else, is what makes the book so horrifying: the fact that the rules necessitated betraying ...

About 10 years ago — not long after Kinji Fukasaku's film adaptation of Koushun Takami's controversial novel "Battle Royale" became a cult hit overseas — I bought a screen-printed poster from ...