Battle Royale
dir. Kinji Fukasaku
78
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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.
Critics consensus
Battle Royale is a controversial and violent parable of adolescence, heightening teenage melodrama with life-or-death stakes.
Directed byKinji Fukasaku
StarringTatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Takeshi Kitano, Taro Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando, Ko Shibasaki
Written byKenta Fukasaku
CinematographyKatsumi Yanagijima
EditingHirohide Abe
MusicMasamichi Amano
Battle Royale
2000 · R · 1h 53m
Drama, Thriller, Action
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.
Critics Consensus
Battle Royale is a controversial and violent parable of adolescence, heightening teenage melodrama with life-or-death stakes.
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