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Battle Royale

Battle Royale

Could you kill your best friend?

20007.31h 53m

Overview

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.

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Written by Kenta Fukasaku, Koushun Takami
Produced by Kinji Fukasaku, Kimio Kataoka, Chie Kobayashi
Box OfficeBudget: $4.5MRevenue: $30.6M

Top Cast

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)

Y

Yukihiro Kotani

Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)

Themes & Keywords

high schoolfriendshipsuicideislandjapanbased on novel or bookasiadystopiagoresurvivaltragedymurdersoldierbattledeathdeath matchschool classjapaneseextreme violencepsychologicalscience fictioninspirationalstudentssuspensedeath game

About Battle Royale

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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