Battle Royale

+18
1h 53m
2000
7.28 /10 (3,639)

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.

Country : Japan
Languages : English, 日本語
Released Date: 2000-12-16

Top Billed Cast

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)

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