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Battle Royale

“Could you kill your best friend?”

★ 7.3 / 10 (4,013 votes)December 16, 2000114 minJA

DramaThrillerAction

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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CINEHOOK / INFORMATION

Movie facts

Release dateDecember 16, 2000

StatusReleased

Runtime114 min

Rating★ 7.3 / 10

CertificationR

Original languageEnglish, Japanese

CountryJapan

Budget$4,500,000

Revenue$30,600,000

ProductionToei Company, WOWOW, AM Associates, Kobi, Nippan Group Holdings, MF Pictures, GAGA Communications

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CINEHOOK / CREDITS

Crew

Director

Kinji Fukasaku

Writers

Kenta Fukasaku

CINEHOOK / CAST

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Tatsuya FujiwaraShuya Nanahara (Boy #15)

Aki Maeda

Aki MaedaNoriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)

Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi KitanoKitano

Taro Yamamoto

Taro YamamotoShogo Kawada (Boy #5)

Masanobu Ando

Masanobu AndoKazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Ko Shibasaki

Ko ShibasakiMitsuko Souma (Girl #11)

Chiaki Kuriyama

Chiaki KuriyamaTakako Chigusa (Girl #13)

Takashi Tsukamoto

Takashi TsukamotoShinji Mimura (Boy #19)

Sousuke Takaoka

Sousuke TakaokaHiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)

Yukihiro Kotani

Yukihiro KotaniYôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)

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Eri IshikawaYukie Utsumi (Girl #2)

Sayaka Kamiya

Sayaka KamiyaSatomi Noda (Girl #17)

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