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20001h 53mNRJapanese

Battle Royale

Could you kill your best friend?

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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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DirectorKinji Fukasaku

Keywords

high schoolfriendshipsuicideislandjapanbased on novel or bookasiadystopiagoresurvivaltragedymurdersoldierbattledeathdeath matchschool classjapaneseextreme violencepsychologicalscience fictioninspirationalstudentssuspensedeath game
Budget$5M
Box Office$31M

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)

Aki Maeda as Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)

Aki Maeda

Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)

Takeshi Kitano as Kitano

Takeshi Kitano

Kitano

Taro Yamamoto as Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)

Taro Yamamoto

Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)

Masanobu Ando as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Masanobu Ando

Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Ko Shibasaki as Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)

Ko Shibasaki

Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)

Chiaki Kuriyama as Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)

Chiaki Kuriyama

Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)

Takashi Tsukamoto as Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)

Takashi Tsukamoto

Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)

Sousuke Takaoka as Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)

Sousuke Takaoka

Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)

Yukihiro Kotani as Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)

Yukihiro Kotani

Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)