Movie
Battle Royale
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2000-12-16
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, Action
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Toei Company, WOWOW, AM Associates, Kobi, Nippan Group Holdings, MF Pictures, GAGA Communications
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- 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)
- Eri Ishikawa as Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2)
- Sayaka Kamiya as Satomi Noda (Girl #17)
Crew
- Kinji Fukasaku - Director
- Kenta Fukasaku - Screenplay
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