Battle Royale
2000
Could you kill your best friend?
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
User Rating
Intensity
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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- Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Written by
- Koushun Takami, Kenta Fukasaku
- Produced by
- Chie Kobayashi, Hisao Nabeshima, Kenta Fukasaku
- Composer
- Masamichi Amano
- Cinematographer
- Katsumi Yanagijima
- Editor
- Hirohide Abe
- Origin country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Language
- Japanese
- Rating
- NR
- TMDB
- 7.3/10 (3,925 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 90% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 81/100
- IMDb
- 7.5/10 (206,168 votes)
Cast
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)
Eri Ishikawa
Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2)
Sayaka Kamiya
Satomi Noda (Girl #17)
Takayo Mimura
Kayoko Kotôhiki (Girl #8)
Yutaka Shimada
Yûtaka Seto (Boy #12)
Ren Matsuzawa
Keita Îjima (Boy #2)
Hirohito Honda
Kazushi Nîda (Boy #16)
Ryou Nitta
Kyôichi Motobuchi (Boy #20)
Sayaka Ikeda
Megumi Eto (Girl #3)
Crew
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Kenta Fukasaku
Screenplay
Koushun Takami
Novel
Chie Kobayashi
Producer
Hisao Nabeshima
Producer
Kimio Kataoka
Producer
Masumi Okada
Producer
Masamichi Amano
Original Music Composer
Katsumi Yanagijima
Director of Photography
Hirohide Abe
Editor
Kyōko Heya
Production Design
Keywords
Links
Trailer
Score
Masamichi Amano
Battle Royale (Original Soundtrack Album)
Battle Royale Collection
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