Battle Royale
92
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A class of Japanese junior high students is forced by a totalitarian government to fight each other to the death on a remote island.
Why watch: Fukasaku's last film named an entire video game genre.
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)
Eri Ishikawa as Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2)
Sayaka Kamiya as Satomi Noda (Girl #17)
Takayo Mimura as Kayoko Kotôhiki (Girl #8)
Yutaka Shimada as Yûtaka Seto (Boy #12)
Ren Matsuzawa as Keita Îjima (Boy #2)
Crew
Kinji Fukasaku — Director
Koushun Takami — Novel
Kenta Fukasaku — Screenplay
Kinji Fukasaku — Producer
Kenta Fukasaku — Producer
Kimio Kataoka — Producer
Chie Kobayashi — Producer
Hisao Nabeshima — Producer
Masumi Okada — Producer
Katsumi Yanagijima — Director of Photography
Hirohide Abe — Editor
Kyōko Heya — Production Design
Masamichi Amano — Original Music Composer
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