Battle Royale

2000 ‘バトル・ロワイアル’ Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

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.

Tatsuya Fujiwara Aki Maeda Tarō Yamamoto Chiaki Kuriyama Kou Shibasaki Masanobu Ando Takeshi Kitano Takashi Tsukamoto Sousuke Takaoka Yukihiro Kotani Eri Ishikawa Sayaka Kamiya Takayo Mimura Yutaka Shimada Ren Matsuzawa Hirohito Honda Ryou Nitta Sayaka Ikeda Anna Nagata Yukari Kanasawa Misao Kato Hitomi Hyuga Satomi Ishii Asami Kanai Satomi Hanamura Yousuke Shibata Shiro Go Yuuki Masuda Shigeki Hirokawa Show All…

Alternative Titles

Batoru Rowaiaru, Battle Royale - Nur einer kann überleben!, Battle Royale (Director's Cut), Batalla Real, Borba do poslednjeg, A Batalha Real, Karališkas mušis, バトル・ロワイアル特別篇, Kraljevska bitka

drama thriller action

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Popular reviews

Review by Sarah Jane 🔪 ★★★★ 20

Every boy in this movie looks like he is a character straight from anime. Man, I hate that hairstyle. Then and now.
Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games) says she was inspired to write The Hunger Games after the poverty she saw in Iraq during the war. Uh huh.
Is anyone else buying that bullshit?
Still a great movie 14 years later.
Review by BRAT ★★★★½ 9

better than the hunger games because jennifer lawrence isn't in it
is it too EDGY to hate on jennifer lawrence on letterboxd.com? whatever im gonna do it anyway

EDIT: lost a follower for hating on jennifer lawrence but i dont care because im committed to the truth
Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★★ 29

Going on a school field trip has never fuckin' sucked so fuckin' bad. Sharing a Kodak moment with your friends. Waking up to a what-the-fuckin'-shit-hell-is-fuckin'-going-on nightmare. A fuckin' outrage as Professor Kitano takes over the class. No fuckin' talkin', not even a fuckin' whisper. A necklace that will fuck you up. Watching your best-mate's neck gush. The transfer students with two very different fuckin' agendas. Watch out, Death Note's finest will light you the fuck up with a pot lid. Mitsuko's smile. The way Kawada smokes. Kazuo, zero lines of dialogue and total fuckin' ownage. The boys from Anonymous try their fuckin' best to hack the system. Yummy spaghetti. The greatest fuckin' lunch ever served at a lighthouse. Kawada vs.…
Review by aliyah ★★★★ 1

not a cell phone in sight, just teenagers living in the moment
Review by Chris 🦑 ★★★★★

me, checking my survival bag: damn... how am i gonna kill myself with a pot lid
Review by suzanne by leonard cohen ★★★★★ 2

everyone looked like they had fun
Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★ 3

Controversial Cult Classic, incredibly original and highly influential film that puts the Hunger Games to shame!
It has more than earned its reputation for its violence and brutality but the real star of the show is the diverse range of emotions and fears (Good and Bad) that are all too human!
Takeshi Kitano added some serious beaucoup depth and flavor to the film!
Naughty Approved!
Review by YI JIAN ★★★★ 12

Run.
When you've already presented the main plot on the table in the first five minutes, and the rest of it are mostly predictable, what do you use to drive your film forward while keeping it interesting?
Testicle mutilation.

Wait. No.
Characters. That's right. Characters. Good ones. The ones with depth. And director Kinji Fukasaku, or rather, author of the original novel -- Koushun Takami, delivers. 43 of 'em! (Including Kitano-sensei.) The hardest part of telling a story about teenagers stabbing, choking and shooting each other is to make the audience care about them. Once that obstacle is crossed, what we have is an emotional, intense, shocking and insane little cult classic.
What makes Battle Royale even more special is…
Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 1

still seems like a severe method in which to teach kids that being an adult is mostly just a confusing mess of hurt feelings and horrifying violence. but who am i to judge?
Review by oleff ★★★½ 6

fortniteeeee forntite eeee forntnite
Review by Jay ★★★★½

did anyone try the chicken and sweetcorn soup? i thought the chicken and sweetcorn soup was lovely
Review by clemmie ★★★½ 5

if i was at battle royale i would’ve stopped it

Recent reviews

Review by madison ★★★★

SUCH A GOOD MOVIE
Review by red_shifts ★★★

An important testament of Japan's economic recession, reform policies and the nation's violence and degenerate imaginary on their youth at the turn of the century.
Review by Jake Ulan ★★★½

Cant find English subtitles so i had to watch English dubbed and it was torture i can hear the whiteness of the voice actors anyways the movie was okay
Review by Ramon Christian Placido ★★★★★

Battle Royale is a fun and exhilarating by the numbers film. I love the action and the story even though there are some inconsistencies with it. I love it.
Review by Ethan Valentine-O'Connell ★★★★

Cannot get over how quickly it took for the little group in the lighthouse to fall apart
Review by kinamarie ★★★★½

this would kill the box office as an anime
Review by 24601daymore ★★★

The soundtrack slaps
Review by LIV ★★★½

I am in the middle of carrying a government sanctioned battle royale about to close it out, and my bra-less wife brings me a sandwich (not asked for) with chips as I get a double kill bot lane.
So how is your day going?
Review by marco2B ★★★★½

Actually watched this last night, but got in a mess on the way home, lost my phone, shit was crazy, got it back! But holy shit, this film absolutely blew me away. I’m gonna draw comparisons to the hunger games a lot to show how brilliantly executed this film is.
Instead of spending an hour following boring protagonists training, Battle Royale opens with a hectic scene showing the viewer how completely insane the world is, and the blood stained little girl declared winner of the previous battle royale makes you instantly understand how grim things really are. From there, we are pretty much instantly thrown into the beginning of the current games, so within the first ten minutes we are…
Review by tadaima ★★★½

Watched in the cinema (with Leo)
Review by Luke Poulton ★★★★★

Local cinema was showing this and this is seriously a fantastic film to see on the big screen. I love how over the top it is right from that opening class room scene, when all the students are being told about what is going on. After that it doesn’t hold back with getting more and more crazy, it’s fast paced and full of so many brilliant moments.
Review by sarah. ★★★★

andou pra que jogos vorazes pudesse correr