Battle Royale 2000

type: Movie

language: Japanese

duration: 113 min

genre: action

theme: dystopian

director: Kinji Fukasaku

Score: 8 / 10

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.

Plot

Following a recession, a totalitarian Japanese government passes an act to curb juvenile delinquency by selecting a junior high school class at random to participate in a yearly 'game' called Battle Royale.

Cast

More details

author	Kenta Fukasaku Koushun Takami
director	Kinji Fukasaku
editor	Hirohide Abe
genre	action science fiction thriller
keywords	abuse basketball player battle royale control room disabled fight to the death game hide ice cream japanese government junior high school juvenile delinquency kill on the run paint reject remote island rescue school bus school class shibuya station suicide suicide in japan totalitarian tracking device transfer student uzi win
musicBy	Johann Sebastian Bach Masamichi Amano
producer	Masao Sato Masumi Okada Teruo Kamaya Tetsu Kayama
productionCompany	Battle Royale Production Committee
publisher	British Film Institute Toei Company
theme	death dystopian girls with guns high school japanese splatter