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Battle Royale · LeviOsa

Battle Royale key art

Could you kill your best friend?

DramaThrillerAction1h 53m

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90%

Tomatometer

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88%

Popcornmeter

7.3

TMDB

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.

Trailers

6 videos

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25th Anniversary ICONIC Theatrical Re-Release Official Trailer [Subtitled]

Quentin Tarantino on Battle Royale

Quentin Tarantino on Battle Royale

25th Anniversary | In Theaters October 12, 13, & 15 [Subtitled]

25th Anniversary | In Theaters October 12, 13, & 15 [Subtitled]

UK Trailer [Subtitled]

UK Trailer [Subtitled]

Shock Proof

Shock Proof

Trailer

Trailer

Details

DirectorKinji Fukasaku

ReleasedDec 16, 2000

StatusReleased

Original languageJapanese

Budget

$4.5M

Revenue

$30.6M

Parental guideRUS

Studios

Toei Company

WOWOWAM AssociatesKobi

Nippan Group HoldingsMF Pictures

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)

Sousuke Takaoka

Sousuke Takaoka

Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)

Yukihiro Kotani

Yukihiro Kotani

Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)

Eri Ishikawa

Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2)

Sayaka Kamiya

Sayaka Kamiya

Satomi Noda (Girl #17)

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Stream

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Reviews

9 reviews · 7 critics · 1 fan

8 fresh · 0 rotten

Critics consensus

“Battle Royale is a controversial and violent parable of adolescence, heightening teenage melodrama with life-or-death stakes.”

90% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

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Sara Stewart

RTNew York PostMay 25, 2012

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

RTNew York TimesMay 24, 2012

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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Joshua Rothkopf

RTTime OutMay 22, 2012

Forgive the film its small flaws of histrionic performances and cheap execution for the giddy rush of its banal, Verhoevenesque atmosphere...

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Gregory Nussen

RTScreen RantOct 13, 2025

Kinji Fukasaku's dystopian high school-set murder spree is more prescient than ever.

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Information

Title

Battle Royale

Released

Dec 16, 2000

Rated

R

Region of Origin

Japan

Original Audio

Japanese

Runtime

1h 53m

Status

Released

Studios

Toei Company, WOWOW

Wanted

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