Additional information for Battle Royale, which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 16, 2000. The film is being distributed by Anchor Bay and has not yet been rated. Battle Royale has a total running time of 114 minutes.
18
Argentina
R
Australia
KNT
Belgium
18A
Canada
K-18
Finland
-16
France
III
Hong Kong
16
Iceland
18
Ireland
R-15
Japan
16
Netherlands
R18
New Zealand
18
Norway
18
Peru
R21
Singapore
18
South Korea
18
Spain
15
Sweden
18
UK
Not Rated
Germany
R-18
Taiwan
(Banned)
Malaysia
M/18
Portugal
18
Brazil
B
Mexico
Not Rated
USA
114min
122min
43min
Battle Royale
Finland
Battle Royale
France
Battle Royale
Germany
Battle Royale
Greece
Battle Royale
Hungary
Battle Royale
International
Battle Royale
Italy
Battle Royale
Norway
Battle Royale
Poland
Battle Royale
Spain
Battle Royale
Sweden
Battle Royale
UK
Battle Royale
USA
Королевская битва
Russia
Ölüm oyunu
Turkey
Batalha Real
Brazil
Batalla real
Argentina
Batoru rowaiaru 3D
Japan
Battle Royale 3-D
International
Battle Royale: Special Edition
USA
Battle Royale: Special Version
Japan
Borba do poslednjeg
Serbia
Juego Sangriento
Mexico
December 16, 2000
Japan
January 04, 2001
Hong Kong
January 18, 2001
Mexico
January 27, 2001
Netherlands
March 23, 2001
USA
April 06, 2001
Japan
June 09, 2001
Australia
June 12, 2001
USA
July 28, 2001
France
August 18, 2001
UK
September 14, 2001
Ireland
September 14, 2001
UK
October 07, 2001
Spain
October 18, 2001
Singapore
November 08, 2001
Russia
November 21, 2001
France
January 30, 2002
Belgium
April 05, 2002
South Korea
April 18, 2002
Germany
June 18, 2002
Netherlands
July 03, 2002
Norway
July 12, 2002
Norway
August 02, 2002
Spain
August 22, 2002
Argentina
September 19, 2002
Iceland
September 25, 2002
Finland
October 04, 2002
Finland
October 10, 2002
Chile
October 20, 2002
Norway
November 09, 2002
Sweden
January 29, 2003
Sweden
February 06, 2003
Peru
March 20, 2003
Australia
March 29, 2003
Denmark
July 22, 2003
Denmark
September 16, 2003
Greece
September 19, 2003
South Korea
September 26, 2003
Greece
October 17, 2003
Turkey
February 27, 2007
Hungary
November 20, 2010
Japan
February 24, 2011
UK
July 08, 2011
USA
July 23, 2011
Canada
September 01, 2011
Hong Kong
December 24, 2011
USA
March 20, 2012
USA
May 25, 2012
USA
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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.
The story opens with a frantic news broadcast about a young girl being brought back to mainland Japan after she wins the latest "Battle Royale", a contest that pits high school students against each other in a fight to the death on a remote island. While being filmed, the girl smiles.Shuya Nanahara, a Japanese middle school student, attempts to cope with life after his father's suicide by hanging. Meanwhile, schoolmate Noriko Nakagawa is the only student attending class -- 3-B. Their teacher, Kitano, quietly leaves upon her tardy, apologetic arrival, but is attacked by student Yoshitoki Kuninobu and resigns after recovering from his wound.One year later, class 3-B takes a field trip after completing their compulsory studies; however, the class is gassed on their bus. They wake up in a "briefing room" on a remote island, wearing electronic collars. Kitano explains that the class has been chosen to participate in this year's Battle Royale as a result of the BR Act, which was passed after 800,000 students walked out of school. The orientation video cheerfully instructs the class to kill each other for three days until only one student remains. Students resistant to their rules or entering one of the randomly placed "death zones" for each day are to be killed by the collar's detonation. One of the 42 students, Fumiyo Fujiyoshi, interferes with the video by whispering to her friends; Kitano kills her on the spot with a thrown knife. While a shocked class is subdued by soldiers, Kuninobu openly confronts the viciousness of Kitano and the teacher slashes him with a knife (in the back of leg - the same area Kuninobu attacked Kitano two years earlier) before detonating his collar while Shuya, his best friend, watches in horror. Each student is provided a bag of food and water, map of the island, compass, and one item containing either a lethal weapon (firearm, sickle, knife, potassium cyanide) or an item apparently worthless toward survival (paper fan, binoculars, coat hanger, saucepan lid). The weapons are supposed to eliminate any natural advantage any one student might have over the others.The program's first six hours see twelve deaths, four of which are suicides. Brazen, mute "exchange student" Kazuo Kiriyama and quietly deranged classmate Mitsuko Souma soon become the most dangerous players in the game, while another exchange student, Shogo Kawada seems somewhat more merciful. Shuya promises to keep Noriko safe for Kuninobu because he was in love with her, but never told her. Other students have various goals in the game: Shinji Mimura and his friends plot to hack into the military's computer systems and destroy their base of operations; Hiroki Sugimura searches for his best friend Takako Chigusa and his love interest Kayoko Kotohiki. Chigusa runs into Kazushi Niida, who is sexually obsessed with her; Chigusa kills him after he attempts forcing himself on her, but is herself killed by Mitsuko. Kawada teams with Shuya and Noriko, and reveals that he won a previous Battle Royale at the cost of his girlfriend, Keiko; he now swears vengeance. The trio are forced to separate when Kiriyama attacks, and Sugimura rescues Shuya, assisted by his assigned "weapon," a GPS tracking device.Shuya awakens bandaged by Yukie Utsumi in the island's lighthouse, where she helps reorient him to the events of the past 14 hours; five other girls on the school's cheerleading squad have also been guarding and hiding out in the building, apparently since the beginning of the program. Utsumi gathers the girls around the dining table to weigh in on a possible method of escape from the island which Shuya has informed her of. Yuko Sakaki, thinking that Shuya murdered a friend of hers, attempts to poison Shuya's food, but it is inadvertently eaten by one of the girls, killing her and sparking a massive, fear-fueled gunfight resulting in all the girls' deaths -- except Yuko. She realises the enormity of her paranoia and commits suicide, jumping from the deck of the lighthouse.Shuya returns to Noriko and Kawada, and they set out to find Mimura's group. To a small warehouse, Sugimura tracks down Kotohiki, who panics and kills him shortly after; Sugimura professes his love before dying. Kotohiki cries in despair, and is found and killed by Mitsuko. Watching from the rafters, Kiriyama then guns down and kills Mitsuko after she sadly dispenses some fitting advice to her two (dead) classmates.Upon the rapidly-consecutive deaths of Sugimura, Kotohiki and Souma, all of the seven students remaining are either preparing or willing to completely subvert the operations of the "game" - save for the psychopathic Kazuo. "The Third Man", a hacker group consisting of Mimura, Iijima and Yutaka, successfully infiltrate the military's computer system and prepare to destroy the perimeter using a truck converted into a fire-bomb. However, at the last second they are found by Kiriyama, who kills them all, but one of them manages to detonate the truck, seriously injuring the killer. When Kawada, Noriko and Shuya arrive at the hackers' burning base, Kawada confronts and kills the shrapnel-blinded, Uzi-armed Kiriyama with his SPAS-12 shotgun.On the morning of the final day, Kawada, aware of the collars' internal microphones, takes Shuya and Noriko aside and fakes their deaths. Suspecting that Kawada has won through manipulation of the BR system, Kitano ends the game and dismisses the troops before establishing final protocol, intent on personally killing the young man. Kitano realizes that Kawada, and not Mimura, has hacked into the game's intranet system months beforehand, and has now disabled Shuya and Noriko's tracking devices. Kitano unveils a homemade painting of the dead students, with Noriko indicated as the winner. He reveals that he was unable to bear the mutual hatred between him and his students, having been rejected by his daughter, Shiori. He also confesses that he always thought of Noriko as a daughter. He asks the confused, reluctant Noriko to kill him, but is quickly shot by Shuya after he threatens her at gunpoint. As he falls, Kitano shoots, and it is shown that the weapon in his hand was a mere water-gun. Suddenly, his phone rings, and Kitano sits down to answer it, telling Shiori that "if you hate someone, you take the consequences" before finally dying. Shuya, Noriko and Kawada leave the island on a boat, but Kawada dies from injuries sustained in his gunfight with Kiriyama -- "glad" that in the end, he "found true friends."Shuya and Noriko are declared fugitive murderers, and last seen on the run in the direction of Tokyo's Shibuya train station.
Kinji Fukasaku
Director(s)
Koushun Takami
Kenta Fukasaku
Writer(s)
Kenta Fukasaku
producer
Kinji Fukasaku
producer
Kimio Kataoka
producer
Chie Kobayashi
producer
Toshio Nabeshima
producer
Masumi Okada
producer
Producer(s)
Masamichi Amano
Composer(s)
Shuya Nanahara - otoko 15-ban
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Noriko Nakagawa - onna 15-ban
Aki Maeda
Shôgo Kawada - otoko 5-ban
Tarô Yamamoto
Kitano-sensei (as Bito Takeshi)
Takeshi Kitano
Takako Chigusa - onna 13-ban
Chiaki Kuriyama
Hiroki Sugimura - otoko 11-ban
Sôsuke Takaoka
Shinji Mimura - otoko 19-ban
Takashi Tsukamoto
Yôshitoki Kuninobu - otoko 7-ban
Yukihiro Kotani
Yukie Utsumi - onna 2-ban
Eri Ishikawa
Satomi Noda - onna 17-ban
Sayaka Kamiya
Fumiyo Fujiyôshi - onna 18-ban
Aki Inoue
Kayoko Kotôhiki - onna 8-ban
Takayo Mimura
Yûtaka Seto - otoko 12-ban
Yutaka Shimada
Keita Îjima - otoko 2-ban
Ren Matsuzawa
Kazushi Nîda - otoko 16-ban
Hirohito Honda
Kyôichi Motobuchi - otoko 20-ban
Ryou Nitta
Megumi Etô - onna 3-ban
Sayaka Ikeda
Hirono Shimizu - onna 10-ban
Anna Nagata
Yûkiko Kitano - onna 6-ban
Yukari Kanasawa
Yumiko Kusaka - onna 7-ban
Misao Kato
Yûko Sakaki - onna 9-ban
Hitomi Hyuga
Haruka Tanizawa - onna 12-ban
Satomi Ishii
Chisato Matsui - onna 19-ban
Asami Kanai
Yûka Nakagawa - onna 16-ban
Satomi Hanamura
Mitsuru Numai - otoko 17-ban
Yousuke Shibata
Ryûhei Sasagawa - otoko 10-ban
Shirô Gô
Hiroshi Kuronaga - otoko 9-ban
Yuuki Masuda
Shô Tsukioka - otoko 14-ban
Shigeki Hirokawa
Izumi Kanai - onna 5-ban
Tamaki Mihara
Sakura Ogawa - onna 4-ban
Tomomi Shimaki
Kazuhiko Yamamoto - otoko 21-ban
Yasuomi Sano
Yoshio Akamatsu - otoko 1-ban
Shin Kusaka
Tatsumichi Ôki - otoko 3-ban
Gouki Nishimura
Toshimori Oda - otoko 4-ban
Shigehiro Yamaguchi
Yôji Kuramoto - otoko 8-ban
Osamu Ohnishi
Tadakatsu Hatagami - otoko 18-ban
Satoshi Yokomichi
Yûichiro Takiguchi - otoko 13-ban
Junichi Naitou
Mizuho Inada - onna 1-ban
Tsuyako Kinoshita
Kaori Minami - onna 20-ban
Mai Sekiguchi
Yoshimi Yahagi - onna 21-ban
Takako Baba
Director(s)
Kenta Fukasaku
Writer(s)
producer
Kinji Fukasaku
producer
Kimio Kataoka
producer
Chie Kobayashi
producer
Toshio Nabeshima
producer
Masumi Okada
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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