Battle Royale
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- Release Date
- December 16, 2000
- Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Cast
- Tatsuya Fujiwara , Aki Maeda , Tarô Yamamoto , Takeshi Kitano , Chiaki Kuriyama , Sosuke Takaoka
- Runtime
- 114
- Main Genre
- Adventure
- Writers
- Koushun Takami , Kenta Fukasaku
- Tagline
- Could you kill your best friend?
- Website
- http://www.br3d.jp/
Summary
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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