>but it’s still a B-movie It was "the third highest-grossing Japanese film of 2001". "At the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards, Battle Royale was nominated for nine

>but it’s still a B-movie It was "the third highest-grossing Japanese film of 2001". "At the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards, Battle Royale was nominated for nine awards, including Picture of the Year, and won three of them". Hardly a b-movie, except in the sense "not a Hollywood blockbuster crapfest"