About this movie
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure
- Language:
- English
- Running time:
- 2:02:10
- Partner rating:
- Released:
- 2000
Cast & Crew
Cast
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Tatsuya Fujiwara
Shuya Nanahara
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Aki Maeda
Noriko Nakagawa
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Taro Yamamoto
Shougo Kawada
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Chiaki Kuriyama
Chigusa
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Masanobu Ando
Kiriyama
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Kou Shibasaki
Mitsuko Souma
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Takeshi Kitano
Kitano
- Yamamoto Taru
- Shibasaki Kou
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Ai Maeda
Shiori Kitano
Directors
- Kinji Fukasaku
Producers
- Kenta Fukasaku
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Kimio Kataoka
- Chie Kobayashi
- Toshio Nabeshima
- Masumi Okada
- Hisao Nabeshima
- Masao Sato
- Kataoka Kimio
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Battle Royale
In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious teenagers in this violent sci-fi opus from Japan. In the year 2002, Japan's economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, and massive unemployment and inflation have thrown most adults into a state of chaos; the nation's youth culture responds with unprecedented violence, delinquency, and truancy. Desperate to restore order, the Japanese parliament responds by creating the Millennial Reform School Act, in which groups of junior high students are selected at random, sent to an isolated island, and forced to play a rigorous war game, in which all but one of their number are killed. Kitano (Beat Takeshi) is an embittered school instructor who guides the 44 students of the Zentsuji Middle School's Class B through the deadly game known as "Battle Royale," as they struggle to survive against the elements and each other. Battle Royale proved to be both successful and highly controversial in Japan, where it set box-office records and prompted political leaders to call for stricter controls on violence in Japanese entertainment; the film was initially rated R-15 (no one under 15 admitted), unusual for violent films in Japan, though director Kinji Fukasaku later prepared a re-edited version that earned a more lenient classification.
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
86%
percent positive reviews
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Sara Stewart, New York Post
Stylistically it's a beauty, with khaki-uniformed waifs fighting for their lives to a crashing classical score.
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A.O. Scott, New York Times
Awful deaths (and hysterical reactions to them) punctuate declarations of love and friendship, revelations of treachery and heavily armed expressions of angst.
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Eric Hynes, Village Voice
It may suit a certain worldview, but Battle Royale's cynicism is still a form fantasy-a balm as well as a bomb.
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Maggie Lee, Hollywood Reporter
3D conversion of a classic teen massacre thriller raises the gore level.
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Urban Cinefile Critics, Urban Cinefile
Although the film can be seen as a satire on everything from the Japanese education system to reality TV, ultimately its absurdism resists easy interpretation.
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