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Could you kill your best friend? - Battle Royale
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Title: Battle Royale

Release Date: 16 Dec 2000

Runtime: 1h 53m

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Action

Director: Toei Company, WOWOW, AM Associates, Kobi, Nippan Group Holdings, MF Pictures, GAGA Communications

Production Companies: Toei Company, WOWOW, AM Associates, Kobi, Nippan Group Holdings, MF Pictures, GAGA Communications

Overview: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.3 (3433 votes)

Cast

  • Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15): Tatsuya Fujiwara
  • Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15): Aki Maeda
  • Kitano: Takeshi Kitano
  • Shogo Kawada (Boy #5): Taro Yamamoto
  • Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6): Masanobu Ando
  • Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11): Ko Shibasaki
  • Takako Chigusa (Girl #13): Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Shinji Mimura (Boy #19): Takashi Tsukamoto
  • Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11): Sousuke Takaoka
  • Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7): Yukihiro Kotani
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