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Battle Royale (2000)

NR ★ 7.3/10 113 min Drama, Thriller, Action Japan Japanese
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Novel: Koushun Takami
Screenplay by: Kenta Fukasaku
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Description

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.

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Top Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara
Tatsuya Fujiwara Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
Aki Maeda
Aki Maeda Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano Kitano
Taro Yamamoto
Taro Yamamoto Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)
Masanobu Ando
Masanobu Ando Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Ko Shibasaki
Ko Shibasaki Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)
Chiaki Kuriyama
Chiaki Kuriyama Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)
Takashi Tsukamoto
Takashi Tsukamoto Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)

Battle Royale Appears on 10 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

Metacritic Must-See Movies of All-Time (Metascore: 81+/100) Redux
Metacritic #1966

Critic Curated

"35 Disturbing Foreign Films to Watch, from Gaspar Noé to Takashi Miike"
IndieWire #11
Indiewire's Best Films Of The 2000s (2024 Edition)
IndieWire #101
Topic 50 Best Dystopian Films According To Paste Magazine
Paste Magazine #15

Filmmaker Curation

Edgar Wright's 1000 Favorite Movies
Letterboxd #841
Mike’s Likes: Favorite Horror Movies
Letterboxd #154
Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies
IndieWire #38

Jimmy Lists

Jimmy Weber's 100 Favorite Movies
Jimmy Weber #096

Letterboxd Lists

Showdown Crimes Of The Future
Letterboxd Showdown #20
Showdown The Warriors
Letterboxd Showdown #04

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