Storyline
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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Cast
Aki Maeda, Takeshi Kitano, Takashi Tsukamoto, Tsuyako Kinoshita, Eri Ishikawa, Sayaka Ikeda, Tomomi Shimaki, Tamaki Mihara, Yukari Kanasawa, Misao Kato, Takayo Mimura, Hitomi Hyuga, Anna Nagata, Kou Shibasaki, Satomi Ishii, Chiaki Kuriyama, Haruka Nomiyama, Satomi Hanamura, Sayaka Kamiya, Aki Inoue, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Asami Kanai, Ai Maeda, Mai Sekiguchi, Takako Baba, Shin Kusaka, Ren Matsuzawa, Shigehiro Yamaguchi, Taro Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando, Yukihiro Kotani, Sousuke Takaoka, Yutaka Shimada, Hirohito Honda, Yousuke Shibata, Kazutoshi Yokoyama, Jirô Nitta, Yasuomi Sano, Yuko Miyamura, Minami, Yuuki Masuda, Shigeki Hirokawa, Ai Iwamura, Michi Yamamura, Takeyuki Hirai, Tomu Asakawa, Yûya Nakahara, Takashi Komori, Ryôta Nakamura, Akihiro Ugajin, Yôichi Murakami, Tsuguharu Niizaki, Jun'ichi Nashiki, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Hideaki Kawashima, Umiji Tasaki, Hidetsugu Okumura, Daisuke Yazawa, Nobuki Baba, Naoki Iwasawa, Kôji Tokuhisa, Mikiya Sanada, Kazuhiro Yokokura, Shigeki Homma, Kazuo Araki, Gôshi Matsuhara, Akira Yoshizawa, Kenzo Shirahama, Kanji Okumura, Shôji Takano, Ryouji Sugimoto, Hajime Yoneda, Hideaki Kojima, Gou Ryugawa, Ken Nakaide, Kanako Fukaura, Shiro Go, Gouki Nishimura, Osamu Ohnishi, Satoshi Yokomichi, Junichi Naitou, Mitsuaki Tachikawa, Takashi Taniguchi
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Reviews
90
Village Voice
[Fukasaku's] genius is finding the overlap between teenage dreams and nightmares, between the intensity of first love and the terror of extinction.
90
American fans of "The Hunger Games" may not embrace - or even be permitted to see - Battle Royale, which is too bad. It is in many ways a better movie and in any case a fascinating companion, drawn from a parallel cultural universe. It is a lot uglier and also, perversely, a lot more fun.
90
Variety
Departing from two decades' worth of domestic and personal dramas and returning to his roots as Japan's maestro of mayhem, Kinji Fukasaku has delivered a brutal punch to the collective solar plexus with one of his most outrageous and timely films.
80
Kinji Fukasaku's slick, sick nightmare is best left to the quasi-banned realm where it exists as a perfect satire; when brought into reality, it's a touch awkward.
75
This one's a thoroughly campy exercise in teen melodrama and Grand Guignol gore (how gory? it's one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite movies), the other (The Hunger Games) a straight-faced action picture.
