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Battle Royale

Battle Royale

Could you kill your best friend?

Part of Battle Royale Collection

2000•1h 53m•7.3/10
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7.3/10(4K)

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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Production

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

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

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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)

Sousuke Takaoka

Sousuke Takaoka

Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)

Yukihiro Kotani

Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)

Eri Ishikawa

Eri Ishikawa

Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2)

Sayaka Kamiya

Sayaka Kamiya

Satomi Noda (Girl #17)

Takayo Mimura

Takayo Mimura

Kayoko Kotôhiki (Girl #8)

Yutaka Shimada

Yûtaka Seto (Boy #12)

Ren Matsuzawa

Ren Matsuzawa

Keita Îjima (Boy #2)

Hirohito Honda

Kazushi Nîda (Boy #16)

Ryou Nitta

Ryou Nitta

Kyôichi Motobuchi (Boy #20)

Sayaka Ikeda

Sayaka Ikeda

Megumi Eto (Girl #3)

Anna Nagata

Anna Nagata

Hirono Shimizu (Girl #10)

Yukari Kanasawa

Yukari Kanasawa

Yukiko Kitano (Girl #6)

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