Battle Royale

Dec 16, 2000

1h 53m

★ 7.3

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.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Action

Production Companies

Toei Company

WOWOW

AM Associates

Kobi

Nippan Group Holdings

MF Pictures

GAGA Communications

Battle Royale Trailers

Cast

Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)

Aki Maeda

Kitano

Takeshi Kitano

Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)

Taro Yamamoto

Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Masanobu Ando

Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)

Ko Shibasaki

Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)

Chiaki Kuriyama

Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)

Takashi Tsukamoto

Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)

Sousuke Takaoka

Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)

Yukihiro Kotani

Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2)

Eri Ishikawa

Satomi Noda (Girl #17)

Sayaka Kamiya

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