Battle Royale
Original title: Batoru rowaiaru
“Could you kill your best friend?”
2000 · 1 h 54 min
Directed by 
Kinji Fukasaku
Kinji FukasakuCast
Tatsuya Fujiwara Aki Maeda Tarô Yamamoto Chiaki Kuriyama Takashi Tsukamoto Sôsuke Takaoka
Credits
Written by: Koushun Takami
Plot
In a near-future Japan, a class of ninth-graders is sent to an island and forced to kill each other until one remains, by order of a government act.
Sinekatalog’s take
A shocking, dark and influential action satire.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (209,192 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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