Battle Royale

About 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.

Battle Royale is a 2000 thriller film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The film is filed under soldier, tragedy, battle, and suspense.

Tatsuya Fujiwara stars as Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15), Aki Maeda as Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15), Takeshi Kitano as Kitano, and Taro Yamamoto as Shogo Kawada (Boy #5). At 113 minutes long, it arrived in December 2000.

The screenplay is by Kenta Fukasaku. It comes from Nippan Group Holdings and Toei Company. The story is adapted from a novel. In the United States it streams on BFI Player Amazon Channel and MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, You Only Live Twice, and The Belko Experiment make useful companions to Battle Royale, all filed under death game and dystopia. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 3,971 votes and it carries a R rating.