Battle Royale (2000) movie poster

Battle Royale (2000)

バトル・ロワイアル
"Could you kill your best friend?"
ThumbScore
👍 86%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 86%
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Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
R
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
TMDB Rating
7.3/10 (3,749 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
81

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15) · 77% avg
Aki Maeda as Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15) · 80% avg
Takeshi Kitano as Kitano · 78% avg
Taro Yamamoto as Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)
Masanobu Ando as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6) · 71% avg
Ko Shibasaki as Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11) · 83% avg
Chiaki Kuriyama as Takako Chigusa (Girl #13) · 81% avg
Takashi Tsukamoto as Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)

Is Battle Royale good?

Yes. 86% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 86%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#524 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#25 / 122 · 2000
On ThumbScore's lists
The Best Action Movies on Prime Video (#50)

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

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What Reddit Thinks

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Top comment: "Man this movie influenced so many things it's crazy."
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