Battle Royale

2000 Kinji Fukasaku 1h 53m ★ 7.3
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)

Vibes

Energized Adventurous Heart Pounding Hidden Gem

Double Feature Pairings

Films that pair perfectly with Battle Royale

Lesson of the Evil
Lesson of the Evil 2012
Authority as horror, Japanese style. Two films about adults who decide children are expendable. The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games 2012
Death match double bill. Two films about the cruelty of forcing children to fight while adults watch.