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Struggle Royale, a high-octane thriller about senseless youngsters violence in a dystopian world, it is one of Japan's best-selling - & most controversial - novels. Within a ruthless program by the totalitarian authorities, ninth-grade students are taken up to a small isolated island with a map, food, and various weapons. Compelled to wear special collars that explode when they break a rule, they must deal with each other for three days and nights until only one "winner" remains. The reduction contest becomes the best in must-see truth television. A Japanese pulp classic available in English-language music for the first time, Struggle Royale is a powerful allegory of what it means to be young and survive in the current dog-eat-dog world. The first novel by small-town journalist Koushun Takami, it went on to become an even more notorious film by 70-year-old director Kinji Fukusaku.