Film

Battle Royale 2000

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

  • Drama, Thriller, Action
  • 113 min
  • R

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.

DramaThrillerActionhigh schoolfriendshipsuicideislandjapanbased on novel or bookasiadystopiagoresurvivaltragedymurder

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  • Graphic violence
  • Harm to children
  • Suicide or self-harm
  • Bleak ending
  • Body horror

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