---
title: 'Battle Royale (2000)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Kinji Fukasaku'
released: '2000-12-16'
runtime_minutes: 113
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/battle-royale-2000'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Battle Royale (2000)

2000 · 113 min · Drama, Action, Thriller · Japan

Original title: バトル・ロワイアル

## Synopsis

Battle Royale  is a 2000 Japanese dystopian action film directed by Kinji Fukasaku from a screenplay by Kenta Fukasaku, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. The film stars Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarō Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama, Kou Shibasaki, Masanobu Andō, and Beat Takeshi. It follows a group of junior high school students forced to fight to the death by a totalitarian Japanese government.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Kinji Fukasaku](https://cinepixo.com/people/kinji-fukasaku)
- **Screenplay:** [Koushun Takami](https://cinepixo.com/people/koushun-takami), [Kenta Fukasaku](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenta-fukasaku)
- **Producer:** [Kenta Fukasaku](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenta-fukasaku)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Masamichi Amano](https://cinepixo.com/people/masamichi-amano)
- **Director of Photography:** [Katsumi Yanagishima](https://cinepixo.com/people/katsumi-yanagishima)
- **Editor:** [Hirohide Abe](https://cinepixo.com/people/hirohide-abe)

## Cast

- [Ren Matsuzawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/ren-matsuzawa) as Keita Iijima
- [Mai Sekiguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/mai-sekiguchi) as Kaori Minami
- [Hitomi Hyuga](https://cinepixo.com/people/hitomi-hyuga) as Yuko Sakaki
- [Yukihiro Kotani](https://cinepixo.com/people/yukihiro-kotani) as Yoshitoki Kuninobu
- [Kō Shibasaki](https://cinepixo.com/people/ko-shibasaki) as Mitsuko Souma
- [Satomi Hanamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/satomi-hanamura) as Yuka Nakagawa
- [Yukari Kanasawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/yukari-kanasawa) as Yukiko Kitano
- [Aki Maeda](https://cinepixo.com/people/aki-maeda) as Noriko Nakagawa
- [Anna Nagata](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-nagata) as Hirono Shimizu
- [Sayaka Kamiya](https://cinepixo.com/people/sayaka-kamiya) as Satomi Noda
- [Yūki Masuda](https://cinepixo.com/people/yuki-masuda) as Hiroshi Kuronaga
- [Yasuomi Sano](https://cinepixo.com/people/yasuomi-sano) as Kazuhiko Yamamoto
- [Tarō Yamamoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/taro-yamamoto) as Shougo Kawada
- [Sousuke Takaoka](https://cinepixo.com/people/sousuke-takaoka) as Hiroki Sugimura
- [Asami Kanai](https://cinepixo.com/people/asami-kanai) as 松井知里

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/battle-royale-2000
Film facts: Wikidata (Q864592); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.