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Certificate 18

Cast Tatsuya Fujiwara Aki Maeda Taro Yamamoto Masanobu Ando Kou Shibasaki Chiaki Kuriyama Beat Takeshi

Directors Fukasaku Kinji

Screenwriters Fukasaku Kenta

Running Time 113 minutes

Battle Royale
Provocative Japanese sci-fi

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Plot
In the near future, Japan institutes a programme to cope with rising youth crime, by selecting a random class of 14 and15 year-olds and packing them off to an island, where they are given weapons and three days to eliminate each other until a sole survivor remains.

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