IF YOU loved Kill Bill Vol. 1 and want to see some of the films that inspired it, you could do a lot worse than starting with Japanese blood-fest Battle Royale.

The 2000 film not only contains an equally high body count, with plenty of grisly deaths but also features Chiaki Kuriyama, who played the school uniform-wearing assassin Go Go, once again wearing school uniform and killing people.

In case you haven't realised yet, like Kill Bill Vol. 1, this is not a film for the fainthearted.

Set in the near future when Japan has become desperately over-crowed school children are selected to take part in a battle royal, in which they must fight their classmates to the death or be killed themselves.

Forty-two children are sent to an uninhabited island where they are each provided with a weapon and given three days to kill each other. They are fitted with an explosive collar which will explode if they try to escape or if these is more than one person left alive once three days are up.

Some of the children quickly launch themselves into killing each other, while others form fragile alliances which, given the nature of the battle, cannot last.

Rating: 8/10