Battle Royale

7.3 2000 Kinji Fukasaku 1h 53m
Drama Thriller Action
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.

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara Tatsuya Fujiwara Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
Aki Maeda Aki Maeda Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
Takeshi Kitano Takeshi Kitano Kitano
Taro Yamamoto Taro Yamamoto Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)
Masanobu Ando Masanobu Ando Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Ko Shibasaki Ko Shibasaki Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)
Chiaki Kuriyama Chiaki Kuriyama Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)
Takashi Tsukamoto Takashi Tsukamoto Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)

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Vibes

Energized Adventurous Heart Pounding Hidden Gem

Double Feature Pairings

Films that pair perfectly with Battle Royale

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Death match double bill. Two films about the cruelty of forcing children to fight while adults watch.

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