Battle Royale

Name: Battle Royale
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Action
Released: 2000
Duration: 1 h 53 min
Rating: 7.3

Could you kill your best friend?

2000·Directed by Kinji Fukasaku·3.8·1h 53m

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Drama Thriller Action Japan

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.

Recommended by 2 People

“In a 2009 video interview, Tarantino called Kinji Fukasaku's 2000 dystopian thriller 'Battle Royale' his favorite movie to come out in the last 17 years. 'If there is any movie that has been made since I've been making movies that I wish I had made, it's that one,' he said.”

Quentin Tarantino

Actor, Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Writer

“"Easily one of my favorite kind of genre/exploitation films. It's harrowing and it's also deeply funny, extremely entertaining. I think there's real commentary in it as well; it's not just pure exploitation."”