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.

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara

as Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)

Aki Maeda

as Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)

Takeshi Kitano

as Kitano

Taro Yamamoto

as Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)

Masanobu Ando

as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Ko Shibasaki

as Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)

Chiaki Kuriyama

as Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)

Takashi Tsukamoto

as Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)

Sousuke Takaoka

as Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)

Yukihiro Kotani

as Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)

Reviews

Dr_Nostromo

75/100 A Japanese film about a government sanctioned contest where a 9th grade class is dropped on a deserted island and the last one alive gets to go home. I found the film to be quite entertaining partly because it was exactly what I expected it to be ...a well above average example of the "las...

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