
Confessions(2010)
Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.


“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.

Tatsuya Fujiwara
Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)

Aki Maeda
Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)

Takeshi Kitano
Kitano

Taro Yamamoto
Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)

Masanobu Ando
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Ko Shibasaki
Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)

Chiaki Kuriyama
Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)

Takashi Tsukamoto
Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)

Sousuke Takaoka
Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)
Yukihiro Kotani
Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)
Battle Royale is a drama, thriller, action film released in 2000 exploring themes of high school, friendship, suicide, island, japan, based on novel or book. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, it stars Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Takeshi Kitano. 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.
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