Tokyo 10+01 (2003)
Director: Higuchinsky

Genre: Action

Plot Summary:
Tokyo 10 + 01 is a self-proclaimed knock-off of the Battle Royale motif, and explicitly alludes to this unabashed dependence in several instances. Eleven socially notorious "contestants" are captured so that they might participate in a Special Game, the winner of which will earn 3 billion yen. The Game is the idea of the Black Papillon, who, we are told, "is a big fan of Kinji Fukasaku" (director of Battle Royale). The game consists of surviving the trek from the warehouse in which they awake to the mansion of the Black Papillon. The trek, crawling with clowns wielding automatic machine guns ready to shoot the contestants dead, must be completed in 11 hours in order for anyone to win. Around the wrist of each contestant is a locked bracelet which will inject the bearer with poison should the eleven hours pass. These and other instructions are made available to the contenstants via a large videoscreen showing an overly cheerful "navi girl" which all the contestants recognize as another knock-off of Battle Royale.

Cast overview, first billed only:
Eddie .... Snake
Natsuki Satou .... Coco
Masanobu Ando .... Fake
Hitomasa Matsuzawa .... Prince
Kee .... Jingi
Miki Waterhouse .... Oolong
Aya Waterhouse .... Jasmine
Kenichi Honma .... Ace
Kei Getsu .... Tall
Yuuta Takayanagi .... Micro
Yuuta Sakamoto .... Big Mac
Eisuke Shinou .... Mr. K
Yoshiyuki Arashi .... The Baron
Makiko .... Video Girl
Yoshihisa Sato .... Crew A

IMO:
trying to act stylo, fail miserably...

Rating:
2 out of 5 snoopys