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Released
2000 · FILM

Battle Royale

A group of junior high students awakens on a remote island to discover they're trapped in a deadly government-sanctioned game where they must fight to the death or be killed by explosive collars. Shuya Nanahara must survive the brutal battle while uncovering the truth behind the game and his own traumatic past.

“Could you kill your best friend?”

Directed by
Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroshi Asari
Written by
Koushun Takami, Kenta Fukasaku
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
113 min
Language
JA
ActionDramaThriller
Streaming on
  • Tubi

Synopsis

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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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 200+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Hirohide AbeShot by Katsumi YanagijimaScored by Masamichi AmanoDesigned by Kyoko HeyaSound by Akira RizawaVFX by Nobutaka Doki

Box Office

2000 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$30.6M

Budget$4.5M
Worldwide gross$30.6M
break-even (2.5×)

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Also known as

  • Battle Royalde
  • Battle Royalede
  • バトル・ロワイアルde
  • Battle Royaleen
  • Batoru rowaiaruja

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