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Battle Royale (2025)
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.
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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.
Rating:R
Genre:Drama, Thriller, Action
Written By:Kenta Fukasaku
In Theaters:10/12/2025
Box Office:$30,600,000
Runtime:113 minutes
Studio:Toei Company, WOWOW, AM Associates, Kobi, Nippan Group Holdings, MF Pictures, GAGA Communications
Cast
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Shuya Nanahara (Boy #15)
Aki Maeda
Noriko Nakagawa (Girl #15)
Takeshi Kitano
Kitano
Taro Yamamoto
Shogo Kawada (Boy #5)
Masanobu Ando
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Ko Shibasaki
Mitsuko Souma (Girl #11)
Chiaki Kuriyama
Takako Chigusa (Girl #13)
Takashi Tsukamoto
Shinji Mimura (Boy #19)
Sousuke Takaoka
Hiroki Sugimura (Boy #11)
Yukihiro Kotani
Yôshitoki Kuninobu (Boy #7)
Eri Ishikawa
Yukie Utsumi (Girl #2)
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