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Battle Royale
2000
· Movie
· 114 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #966
- IMDb #1036
- Google retired #2151
- Rotten Tomatoes #650
- Metacritic #578
- Letterboxd #910
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1065
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #747
- Metacritic Audience #757
- Criticker #773
- Douban #687
- Kinopoisk #1777
- AlloCiné #1407
- Trakt #1253
Every rating
60–90
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 90.
See the most agreed on films →In a dystopian future, a class of junior high school students is gassed on a field trip. They wake up on a deserted island, where they are forced by a tyrannical government to participate in a brutal game. Each student is given a weapon and must fight to the death until only one remains. Friendships are tested and alliances are formed and broken in a violent struggle for survival.
Details
- Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Writer
- Kenta Fukasaku
- Based on
- Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
- Studio
- Toei Company, WOWOW, AM Associates, Kobi
- Released
- 16 December 2000
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese, English
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.5M
- Box office
- $30.6M
- Awards
- 7 wins, 7 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 14 →3 major awards won · 7 wins from 14 nominations across 5 ceremonies
| Japanese Academy Awards 2000 | Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing | Hirohide Abe | Winner |
| Japanese Academy Awards 2000 | Popularity Award | Battle Royale | Winner |
| Japanese Academy Awards 2000 | Newcomer of the Year | Tatsuya Fujiwara and Aki Maeda | Winner |
| Japanese Academy Awards 2000 | Picture of the Year | Battle Royale | Nominee |
| Japanese Academy Awards 2000 | Director of the Year | Kinji Fukasaku | Nominee |
| Japanese Academy Awards 2000 | Screenplay of the Year | Kenta Fukasaku | Nominee |
| Japanese Academy Awards 2000 | Actor of the Year | Tatsuya Fujiwara | Nominee |
| Japanese Academy Awards 2000 | Outstanding Achievement in Music | Masamichi Amano | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Japanese Academy Awards
9 nominations, 3 won
| Newcomer of the Year | Tatsuya Fujiwara and Aki Maeda | Winner |
| Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing | Hirohide Abe | Winner |
| Popularity Award | Battle Royale | Winner |
| Actor of the Year | Tatsuya Fujiwara | Nominee |
| Director of the Year | Kinji Fukasaku | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement in Music | Masamichi Amano | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement in Sound Recording | Kunio Ando | Nominee |
| Picture of the Year | Battle Royale | Nominee |
| Screenplay of the Year | Kenta Fukasaku | Nominee |
Blue Ribbon Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Film | Kinji Fukasaku | Winner |
| Best New Actor | Tatsuya Fujiwara | Winner |
San Sebastián Horror & Fantasy Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Audience Award for the Best Feature Film | Kinji Fukasaku | Winner |
Yokohama Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Supporting Actress | Kou Shibasaki | Winner |
Sitges Film Festival
1 nomination
| Best Film | Kinji Fukasaku | Nominee |