Battle Royale (2000)
Battle Royale (2000)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
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)
Sousuke Takaoka
Hiroki Sugimura - Boy #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
Kinji Fukasaku
Director / Producer
Kimio Kataoka
Producer
Chie Kobayashi
Producer
Hisao Nabeshima
Producer
Kyōko Heya
Production Design
Kenta Fukasaku
Screenplay / Producer
Hirohide Abe
Editor
Koushun Takami
Novel
Masumi Okada
Producer
Mizuki Ito
Sound Effects Editor / Foley Artist
Koichi Hirai
Set Decoration
Masamichi Amano
Conductor / Original Music Composer
Akihiko Okase
Foley Artist
Motoki Ishida
Production Manager
Kikuo Notomi
Armorer / Pyrotechnician
Kenji Shibasaki
Sound Effects
Rena Grady
Makeup Artist
Kunio Ando
Sound
Dragon Ash
Theme Song Performance
Katsumi Yanagijima
Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 16, 2000
Original Nameバトル・ロワイアル
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 53m
Content RatingNR
Budget$4,500,000
Box Office$30,600,000
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Battle Royale (Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル, Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru) is a 2000 Japanese action film directed by Kinji Fukasaku from a screenplay by Kenta Fukasaku, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. The film stars Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarō Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kou Shibasaki, Masanobu Andō, and Beat Takeshi. It follows a group of junior high school students forced to fight to the death by a Japanese totalitarian government.
Battle Royale was theatrically released in Japan on December 16, 2000, by Toei, with an R15+ rating, which is rarely used in Japan. The film drew controversy and was banned or excluded from distribution in several countries. Toei refused to sell the film to any United States distributor for over a decade due to concerns about potential controversy and lawsuits, until Anchor Bay Films eventually acquired the film in 2010 for a direct-to-video release. Worldwide, it grossed $30.6 million against a production budget of $4.5 million. The film earned critical acclaim and, especially with its video releases, drew a large global cult following. It is often regarded as one of Fukasaku's best films and one of the best films of the 2000s. In 2009, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino praised Battle Royale as his favorite film of the previous two decades.
Battle Royale was the last film to be fully directed by Kinji Fukasaku. He started working on the sequel, titled Battle Royale II: Requiem, but died of prostate cancer on January 12, 2003, after shooting only one scene with Takeshi. His son, Kenta Fukasaku, who also wrote Requiem, completed the film that same year. The sequel was deemed inferior to its predecessor.
The film is notable for featuring many young, unknown actors who became stars later on, along with helping to spawn the battle royale genre.