Battle Royale
(Batoru rowaiaru)
Synopsis
In the near future, the economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared and juvenile crime has exploded. Fearful of their nation’s youth, the Japanese government passes The BR Law: Each year, a 9th grade class is sent to a remote island where they will be locked into exploding neck collars, given a random weapon, and forced to hunt and kill each other until there is only one survivor left...
A movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku
2000 - 114 minutes - Color - Dolby Digital - 1.85
Main Cast
- Shuya Nanahara - otoko 15-ban
- Noriko Nakagawa - onna 15-ban
- Shôgo Kawada - otoko 5-ban
- Kitano-sensei
- Takako Chigusa - onna 13-ban
- Hiroki Sugimura - otoko 11-ban
- Shinji Mimura - otoko 19-ban
- Yôshitoki Kuninobu - otoko 7-ban
- Yukie Utsumi - onna 2-ban
- Satomi Noda - onna 17-ban
- Kayoko Kotôhiki - onna 8-ban
- Yûtaka Seto - otoko 12-ban
- Fumiyo Fujiyôshi - onna 18-ban
- Keita Îjima - otoko 2-ban
- Kazushi Nîda - otoko 16-ban
Also Known As
- Battle Royale 3-D (inc)
- Batoru rowaiaru 3D (jp)
- Battle Royale: Special Version (jp)
- Battle Royale: Special Edition (us)
Release dates
- December 16, 2000
September 14, 2001
More release dates…
June 09, 2001 (Sydney Film Festival)- March 20, 2003
- December 16, 2000
- April 06, 2001 (special edition)
- November 20, 2010 (3D)
- August 18, 2001 (Edinburgh International Film Festival)
- September 14, 2001
- February 24, 2011 (3-D version, Glasgow Film Festival)
March 23, 2001 (Cleveland International Film Festival)- June 12, 2001 (Seattle International Film Festival)
- July 08, 2011 (Japan Cuts)
- December 24, 2011 (Los Angeles, California)
- March 20, 2012 (DVD premiere)
- May 25, 2012 (New York City, New York)