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Battle Royale
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.
2000 · Directed by Kinji Fukasaku · 113 min · Drama · Thriller · Action · 19 frames
Tagline
Could you kill your best friend?
Crew
- Screenplay: Kenta Fukasaku
- Cinematography: Katsumi Yanagijima
- Edited by: Hirohide Abe
- Music: Masamichi Amano
- Production design: Kyōko Heya
- Produced by: Kinji Fukasaku, Masumi Okada, Kimio Kataoka, Chie Kobayashi
Cast
- Tatsuya Fujiwara as Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
- Aki Maeda as Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
- Takeshi Kitano as Kitano
- Taro Yamamoto as Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)
- Masanobu Ando as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
- Ko Shibasaki as Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)
- Chiaki Kuriyama as Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)
- Takashi Tsukamoto as Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)
- Sousuke Takaoka as Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)
- Yukihiro Kotani as Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)
Production
- Country: Japan
- Language: English, Japanese
- Studios: Toei Company, WOWOW, AM Associates, Kobi
- Budget: $4,500,000
- Box office: $30,600,000
- Themes: high school, friendship, suicide, island, japan, based on novel or book, asia, dystopia, gore, survival
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