Battle Royale (2000)

  • NR
  • 12/20/2000 (US)
  • Drama, Thriller, Action
  • 1h 53m

Could you kill your best friend?

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.

Koushun Takami

Novel

Kenta Fukasaku

Screenplay

Kinji Fukasaku

Director

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara's headshot

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
Aki Maeda's headshot

Aki Maeda

Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
Takeshi Kitano's headshot

Takeshi Kitano

Kitano
Taro Yamamoto's headshot

Taro Yamamoto

Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)
Masanobu Ando's headshot

Masanobu Ando

Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Ko Shibasaki's headshot

Ko Shibasaki

Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)
Chiaki Kuriyama's headshot

Chiaki Kuriyama

Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)
Takashi Tsukamoto's headshot

Takashi Tsukamoto

Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)

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