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Battle Royale
“Could you kill your best friend?”
7.3 / 10• 2000• 1h 53m•R• Japanese
DramaThrillerAction
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
Lead
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)
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Kinji Fukasaku's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Battle Royale is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
