What are you doing tonight? Getting a beer? Eating a pizza? Trying to hook up? Forget it. You can do those things any night of the year. What you should be doing is greeting the greatest one-two punch of exploitation cinema that will ever meet your face: BATTLE ROYALE and RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY.

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BATTLE ROYALE is classy, big budget, political and slick.

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RIKI-OH is low grade, grotty, blood-splattered and sick.

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BATTLE ROYALE will screen at 9:15pm tonight at Japan Society. Kept off the American market for a decade by Toei, who were apparently terrified that they could be liable for any copycat crimes that took place in the US, BATTLE ROYALE is the final film from master filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku (BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY) and it’s a savage indictment of modern society and a call to revolution for kids. Let’s face it, kids can’t drink, they can’t smoke and they can’t vote and they’re always being manipulated by adults with ulterior motives. BATTLE ROYALE is the first movie that says to kids, “Get armed. Go underground. Kill anyone over 30, or they’ll kill you.” Tonight’s show is about 2/3’s sold out but there are still tickets left and it’s going to be an absolutely incredible blow-out.

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BATTLE ROYALE features an amazing cast of
Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama,
Masanobu Ando and Tatsuya Fujiwara.

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Then, at midnight tonight, over at the Walter Reade at Lincoln Center, RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY will unfold before shocked and disbelieving eyes. One of the most over-the-top, batshit insane exploitation movies ever made, it stars a young and dewey Fan Siu-wong as Ricky, a boy sent to a prison full of giant monsters, wardens who keep breath mints in their glass eyes, super-kung-fu fighters and jerks who will strangle you with their guts.

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Also, head-crushing.

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Skull slicing.

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And whatever the hell this is.

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Read more about RIKI-OH and try not to feel your brain rumbling: it is hungry for crazy! RIKI-OH is the crazy feast it wants to eat!

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BATTLE ROYALE ends around 11:20pm, which gives you enough time to hop in a cab or get on your Segway and zip across town in time to catch RIKI-OH. Trust us – you won’t regret it. A night this insane comes along once in a lifetime.

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Buy BATTLE ROYALE tickets here.

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Buy RIKI-OH: STORY OF RICKY tickets here.

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