Battle Royale
Non-Premiere
113 minutes | 2000 | Japan | Other | 🔊 Japanese
Synopsis
Sinopsis
With society in collapse, the government launches the brutal “Battle Royale” program against youth.
A class of unsuspecting 9th graders is hijacked and isolated on an abandoned island. Their former teacher, Kitano, enforces the game’s horrifying rule: only one student can survive in three days—or everyone dies by explosive collar.
Students like Shuya and Noriko are thrust into a frantic fight for life. Shuya accidentally kills a classmate but vows to outwit the sick experiment. As alliances crumble and terror rises, the teens struggle with hope, young love and petty grudges against a backdrop of shocking violence.
Schedule
Jadwal
Wed, 3 Dec 2025 | 21:00 | EMPIRE XXI | Studio 1
Director's Biography
Biografi Sutradara
Kinji Fukasaku
Kinji Fukasaku is the director of Toei's legendary yakuza series, BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY. Fukasaku worked as an assistant director at Toei from 1953 until 1961, when he burst into the limelight with the daring film noir, GREED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT (1961). Fukasaku worked tirelessly thereafter, often making 3 films in a year. Shot hand-held in cinemascope, BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY (1973), broke box office records, turned the yakuza genre upside down and placed the director in the pantheon of Japanese masters.
Credit
Kredit
| Production Company | TOEI COMPANY, LTD. |
| Producer | n/a |
| Director | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Scriptwriter | Kenta Fukasaku |
| Cinematographer | Katsumi Yanagijima |
| Production Designer | Kyoko Heya |
| Editor | Hirohide Abe |
| Main Cast | Tatsuya Fujiwara(Shuya), Aki Maeda(Noriko), Beat Takeshi(Kitano) |
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| Notable Achievement | – |
| Contact | [email protected] |
