# Battle Royale (2000)

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**Original title**: *バトル・ロワイアル*
**Runtime**: 113 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller, Action
**Directed by**: Kinji Fukasaku
**Written by**: Kenta Fukasaku
**Starring**: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Takeshi Kitano, Taro Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando, Ko Shibasaki

> *Could you kill your best friend?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Abandoned island summer air thick with gunfire a school bus idles. Ninth-grade students stand nervously armed. 
Kinji Fukasaku directs this thriller.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, dread, gut-punch, raw, unhinged

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 7.5/10 (206168 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 90% · Metacritic 81/100

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