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Battle Royale2000

Name: Battle Royale
Genre: Survival, Splatter & Gore, Psychological, Sci-Fi Horror
Released: 2000-12-16
Rating: 7.7

“Could you kill your best friend?”

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

7.7

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 7.5Rotten Tomatoes 90%Metacritic 81TMDB 7.3

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Year

2000

Runtime

113 min

Box Office

Budget

$4,500,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$30,600,000

🏆 7 wins & 8 nominations total

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

In a near-future Japan pushed to its breaking point, a class of ninth-graders is transported to a remote island and given a horrifying ultimatum: kill your classmates or be killed yourself. Armed with random weapons and fitted with explosive collars, former friends become enemies as the hours tick down. Director Kinji Fukasaku turns a dystopian premise into a raw, emotionally devastating study of what desperation does to young people. It is shocking, stylish, and impossible to look away from.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Depictions Of Suicide, Violence Against Minors, Extreme Psychological Distress