Battle Royale (2000)
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Could you kill your best friend?
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.
- Released: 2000-12-16
- Genres: Drama, Thriller, Action
- Runtime: 1h 53m
- Status: Released
- TMDB rating: 7.3/10 from 3,955 votes
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
Top cast
- Tatsuya Fujiwara as Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
- Aki Maeda as Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
- Takeshi Kitano as Kitano
- Taro Yamamoto as Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)
- Masanobu Ando as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
- Ko Shibasaki as Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)
- Chiaki Kuriyama as Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)
- Takashi Tsukamoto as Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)
- Sousuke Takaoka as Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)
- Yukihiro Kotani as Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)
Where to watch Battle Royale
- United States: stream on BFI Player Amazon Channel, MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel; watch free on Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome, The CW, Plex, Plex Channel, Tubi TV; rent on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home; buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- United Kingdom: stream on Arrow Video Amazon Channel, ARROW; rent on Rakuten TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube; buy on Apple TV Store, Rakuten TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Sky Store
- India: stream on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
- Canada: stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads; watch free on Hoopla, Crave, Tubi TV, Plex; rent on Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, CosmoGo, YouTube, Amazon Video; buy on Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, CosmoGo, YouTube, Amazon Video
- Australia: stream on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
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