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Battle Royale
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7.3In 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.
Released: 2000-12-16113 minDir: Kinji FukasakuDrama, Thriller, ActionBudget: $4.5MBox office: $30.6MPart of: Battle Royale Collection
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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)
Themes
- high school
- friendship
- suicide
- island
- japan
- based on novel or book
- asia
- dystopia
- gore
- survival
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Key facts
- Kana
- バトル・ロワイアル
- Revised hepburn
- Batoru Rowaiaru
via Wikipedia infobox
~39 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Directed byKinji Fukasaku Screenplay byKenta Fukasaku Based onBattle Royale by Koushun Takami
Produced by Masao Sato
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Battle Royale” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.