Battle Royale
Could you kill your best friend?
Genres
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
Budget
$4500000
Revenue
$30600000
Runtime
113 min
Release Date
2000-12-16
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Vote Count
3585
Vote Average
7.281
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
Aki Maeda
Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
Takeshi Kitano
Kitano
Taro Yamamoto
Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)
Masanobu Ando
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Ko Shibasaki
Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)
Chiaki Kuriyama
Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)
Takashi Tsukamoto
Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)
Sousuke Takaoka
Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)
Yukihiro Kotani
Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)
Eri Ishikawa
Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2)
Sayaka Kamiya
Satomi Noda (Girl #17)
Takayo Mimura
Kayoko Kotôhiki (Girl #8)
Yutaka Shimada
Yûtaka Seto (Boy #12)
Ren Matsuzawa
Keita Îjima (Boy #2)
Hirohito Honda
Kazushi Nîda (Boy #16)
Ryou Nitta
Kyôichi Motobuchi (Boy #20)
Sayaka Ikeda
Megumi Eto (Girl #3)
Anna Nagata
Hirono Shimizu (Girl #10)
Yukari Kanasawa
Yukiko Kitano (Girl #6)
Misao Kato
Yumiko Kusaka (Girls #7)
Hitomi Hyuga
Yuko Sakaki (Girl #9)
Satomi Ishii
Haruka Tanizawa (Girl #12)
Asami Kanai
Chisato Matsui (Girl #19)
Satomi Hanamura
Yuka Nakagawa (Girl #16)
Yousuke Shibata
Mitsuru Numai (Boy #17)
Shiro Go
Ryûhei Sasagawa (Boy #10)
Yuuki Masuda
Hiroshi Kuronaga (Boy #9)
Shigeki Hirokawa
Shô Tsukioka (Boy #14)
Tamaki Mihara
Izumi Kanai (Girl #5)
Tomomi Shimaki
Sakura Ogawa (Girl #4)
Yasuomi Sano
Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Boy #21)
Shin Kusaka
Yoshio Akamatsu (Boy #1)
Gouki Nishimura
Tatsumichi Ôki (Boy #3)
Shigehiro Yamaguchi
Toshinori Oda (Boy #4)
Osamu Ohnishi
Yôji Kuramoto (Boy #8)
Satoshi Yokomichi
Tadakatsu Hatagami (Boy #18)
Junichi Naitou
Yûichiro Takiguchi (Boy #13)
Tsuyako Kinoshita
Mizuho Inada (Girl #1)
Mai Sekiguchi
Kaori Minami (Girl #20)
Takako Baba
Yoshimi Yahagi (Girl #21)
Haruka Nomiyama
Mayumi Tendo (Girl #14)
Aiko Nogami
Fumiyo Fujiyôshi (Girl #18)
Ai Iwamura
A Girl Who Won Last Battle Royale
Ai Maeda
Shiori - Kitano's Daughter (voice)
Minami
Keiko
Michi Yamamura
Reporter
Kazutoshi Yokoyama
Basketball Referee
Gô Tatsukawa
Lieutenant Anjo
Takashi Taniguchi
Shuya's Father
Ken Nakaide
Teacher Hayashida
Kanako Fukaura
Bus Guide
Yuko Miyamura
Training Video Girl
Takeyuki Hirai
Soldier
Tomu Asakawa
Soldier
Yûya Nakahara
Soldier
Takashi Komori
Soldier
Ryôta Nakamura
Soldier
Akihiro Ugajin
Soldier
Yôichi Murakami
Soldier
Tsuguharu Niizaki
Soldier
Jun'ichi Nashiki
Soldier
Hiroshi Kitagawa
Soldier
Hideaki Kawashima
Soldier
Umiji Tasaki
Soldier
Hidetsugu Okumura
Soldier
Daisuke Yazawa
Soldier
Nobuki Baba
Soldier
Naoki Iwasawa
Soldier
Kôji Tokuhisa
Soldier
Mikiya Sanada
Soldier
Kazuhiro Yokokura
Soldier
Shigeki Homma
Soldier
Kazuo Araki
Soldier
Gôshi Matsuhara
Soldier
Akira Yoshizawa
Soldier
Kenzo Shirahama
Soldier
Kanji Okumura
Soldier
Shôji Takano
Soldier
Ryoji Sugimoto
Soldier
Hajime Yoneda
Soldier
Hideaki Kojima
Soldier
Mitsuaki Tachikawa
Soldier
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