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Battle Royale

Battle Royale
★ 7.3/10•2000•1h 54m•R•Drama•Thriller•Action

Could you kill your best friend?

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Kinji Fukasaku · Director

Kenta Fukasaku · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 54m
LanguageJA
Release DateDec 16, 2000
Budget$4,500,000
Revenue$30,600,000

Actors

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)

Aki Maeda

Aki Maeda

Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)

Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano

Kitano

Taro Yamamoto

Taro Yamamoto

Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)

Masanobu Ando

Masanobu Ando

Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Ko Shibasaki

Ko Shibasaki

Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)

Chiaki Kuriyama

Chiaki Kuriyama

Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)

Takashi Tsukamoto

Takashi Tsukamoto

Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)

Sousuke Takaoka

Sousuke Takaoka

Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)

Yukihiro Kotani

Yukihiro Kotani

Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)

Eri Ishikawa

Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2)

Sayaka Kamiya

Sayaka Kamiya

Satomi Noda (Girl #17)

Takayo Mimura

Takayo Mimura

Kayoko Kotôhiki (Girl #8)

Yutaka Shimada

Yutaka Shimada

Yûtaka Seto (Boy #12)

Ren Matsuzawa

Ren Matsuzawa

Keita Îjima (Boy #2)

Hirohito Honda

Kazushi Nîda (Boy #16)

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