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Battle Royale
2000 2h 2m Not Rated
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In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
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Directed By
Kinji Fukasaku
Written By
Koushun Takami
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Kenta Fukasaku
Studio
Toei Company
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WOWOW
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and more
Cast of Battle Royale
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)
Anna Nagata
Hirono Shimizu (Girl #10)
Yukari Kanasawa
Yukiko Kitano (Girl #6)
Misao Kato
Yumiko Kusaka (Girls #7)
Hitomi Hyuga
Yuko Sakaki (Girl #9)
Satomi Ishii
Haruka Tanizawa (Girl #12)
Asami Kanai
Chisato Matsui (Girl #19)
Satomi Hanamura
Yuka Nakagawa (Girl #16)
Yousuke Shibata
Mitsuru Numai (Boy #17)
Shiro Go
Ryûhei Sasagawa (Boy #10)
Yuuki Masuda
Hiroshi Kuronaga (Boy #9)
Shigeki Hirokawa
Shô Tsukioka (Boy #14)
Tamaki Mihara
Izumi Kanai (Girl #5)
Tomomi Shimaki
Sakura Ogawa (Girl #4)
Yasuomi Sano
Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Boy #21)
Shin Kusaka
Yoshio Akamatsu (Boy #1)
Gouki Nishimura
Tatsumichi Ôki (Boy #3)
Shigehiro Yamaguchi
Toshinori Oda (Boy #4)
Osamu Ohnishi
Yôji Kuramoto (Boy #8)
Satoshi Yokomichi
Tadakatsu Hatagami (Boy #18)
Junichi Naitou
Yûichiro Takiguchi (Boy #13)
Tsuyako Kinoshita
Mizuho Inada (Girl #1)
Mai Sekiguchi
Kaori Minami (Girl #20)
Takako Baba
Yoshimi Yahagi (Girl #21)
Haruka Nomiyama
Mayumi Tendo (Girl #14)
Aiko Nogami
Fumiyo Fujiyôshi (Girl #18)
Ai Iwamura
A Girl Who Won Last Battle Royale
Ai Maeda
Shiori - Kitano's Daughter (voice)
Minami
Keiko
Michi Yamamura
Reporter
Kazutoshi Yokoyama
Basketball Referee
Gô Tatsukawa
Lieutenant Anjo
Takashi Taniguchi
Shuya's Father
Ken Nakaide
Teacher Hayashida
Kanako Fukaura
Bus Guide
Yuko Miyamura
Training Video Girl
Takeyuki Hirai
Soldier
Tomu Asakawa
Soldier
Yûya Nakahara
Soldier
Takashi Komori
Soldier
Ryôta Nakamura
Soldier
Akihiro Ugajin
Soldier
Yôichi Murakami
Soldier
Tsuguharu Niizaki
Soldier
Jun'ichi Nashiki
Soldier
Hiroshi Kitagawa
Soldier
Hideaki Kawashima
Soldier
Umiji Tasaki
Soldier
Hidetsugu Okumura
Soldier
Daisuke Yazawa
Soldier
Nobuki Baba
Soldier
Naoki Iwasawa
Soldier
Kôji Tokuhisa
Soldier
Mikiya Sanada
Soldier
Kazuhiro Yokokura
Soldier
Shigeki Homma
Soldier
Kazuo Araki
Soldier
Gôshi Matsuhara
Soldier
Akira Yoshizawa
Soldier
Kenzo Shirahama
Soldier
Kanji Okumura
Soldier
Shôji Takano
Soldier
Ryoji Sugimoto
Soldier
Hajime Yoneda
Soldier
Hideaki Kojima
Soldier
Mitsuaki Tachikawa
Soldier
Battle Royale Reviews
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Awful deaths (and hysterical reactions to them) punctuate declarations of love and friendship, revelations of treachery and heavily armed expressions of angst.
New York Post
Sara Stewart
Stylistically it's a beauty, with khaki-uniformed waifs fighting for their lives to a crashing classical score.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Maybe Battle Royale's ultimate punchline is its inexplicable ability to fool some people into taking it seriously.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Races along with the swift, brutal precision of a samurai sword cutting through cotton.
Village Voice
Eric Hynes
It may suit a certain worldview, but Battle Royale's cynicism is still a form fantasy-a balm as well as a bomb.
Hollywood Reporter
Maggie Lee
3D conversion of a classic teen massacre thriller raises the gore level.
Variety
Robert Koehler
Departing from two decades' worth of domestic and personal dramas and returning to his roots as Japan's maestro of mayhem, Kinji Fukasaku has delivered a brutal punch to the collective solar plexus with one of his most outrageous and timely films.
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Disturbing, gory, shocking, and very original.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
Fukasaku's set pieces are dynamic, composed and edited with a neatness that is missing from the shaky-camera esthetic of the movie's successor, 'The Hunger Games.'
Projection Booth
Rob Humanick
Pitched with the insatiable verve of a TV game show and the vacant regret of a Grand Theft Auto videogame.
IGN DVD
R.L. Shaffer
Battle Royale is a masterpiece of mayhem, violence and unfettered teen melodrama.
ESplatter
Lucius Gore
A disturbing film to say the least, and definitely one that could never have been made in the United States.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Shane Burridge
Its content will earn it a following from as many witless viewers as it will thoughtful ones, but that's no reason to condemn it
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
What it does have is plenty of splatter, noise and energy.
Rob's Movie Vault
Rob Gonsalves
A modern classic about the folly of violence.
Panorama
Jean-François Vandeuren
Une oeuvre faisant l'objet d'un vritable culte que l'on imagine mal voir sortir d'un studio d'Hollywood.
Boston Phoenix
Alexandra Cavallo
Battle Royale is The Hunger Games not diluted for young audiences.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Gloriously sick and twisted. A masterpiece.
Filmcritic.com
Norm Schrager
As twisted as it sounds, killing off 41 teens takes a great deal of creativity and an innate sense of pacing in order to avoid, well, cinematic boredom.
eFilmCritic.com
Brian Mckay
BATTLE ROYALE is a film that should not be easily ignored, and will not be easily forgotten...the faces of those kids are likely to linger long after the credits stop.
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