10 Essential Movies Quentin Tarantino Demands You See

10. Battle Royale

In his round up of movies released between 1992 and 2009 Quentin Tarantino said of Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale, "if there is any movie that has been made since I've been making movies that I wish I had made it's that." It's easy to see why Tarantino would have such admiration for Battle Royale - as a fan of exploitation cinema and genre mash-ups, Fukasaku's deliriously violent movie delivers on both counts. It's also perhaps far more subversive than anything Tarantino has made, working on a premise which, in light of the number of school shootings in America, would never be made in Hollywood. Tarantino's passion for Japanese cinema is predictably broad and varied, with influences most evident in Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2. Reservoir Dogs was also influenced by Asian cinema, notably Ringo Lam's City On Fire, which comes complete with the four way stand-off he used in his own directorial debut.