Battle Royale

Battle Royale

7.3

Dec 16 2000

2h 53m

Drama, Thriller, Action

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.

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)

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