Battle Royale
2000 · Movie · R · 113 min · ★ 7.3 · 86% critics
In a dystopian future, the Japanese government puts a class of students through a sanctioned “Battle Royale” act, forcing them into a deadly contest. They’re dropped on a remote island and made to fight each other, with only one outcome allowing someone to go home.
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Details
- Original title
- バトル・ロワイアル
- Years
- 2000
- Release date
- 2000-12-16
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 86/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.3/10 (3,823 votes)
- Box office
- $958,989
- Budget
- $4,500,000
About
If you want a grim, satirical last-man-standing thriller with lots of violence and moral pressure, Battle Royale may hit hard; Not for you if you want likeable characters or lighter youth entertainment like Hot Fuzz or Sonatine.
Pros: sharp dystopian premise; heavy satire; memorable tension | Cons: uneven character depth; harsh violence; divisive acting
Themes
- high school
- friendship
- suicide
- island
- japan
- based on novel or book
- asia
- dystopia
- gore
- survival
- tragedy
- murder
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Cast & crew
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)
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku