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Battle Royale

Battle Royale

2000181h 53m
DramaThrillerAction

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.

IMDb
7.5 /10
208,519 reviews
Letterboxd
3.9 /5
436,823 reviews
TMDB
73%
3,907 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes
90%88%
CriticsAudience
Metacritic
817.8
CriticsAudience
Bechdel Test
3 of 3 criteria
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Director

Kinji Fukasaku

Cast

Tatsuya FujiwaraAki Maeda
Tatsuya FujiwaraAki MaedaTakeshi KitanoTaro Yamamoto

ShowingsShowings

Friday, 28 August 2026in 9 days

20:40
Finsbury Park Picturehouse
Screen 6
Subtitles
Rephouse

Saturday, 29 August 2026in 10 days

17:30
Finsbury Park Picturehouse
Screen 6
Subtitles
Rephouse

Sunday, 30 August 2026

14:30
Finsbury Park Picturehouse
Screen 6
Subtitles
Rephouse

Saturday, 10 October 2026

16:00
The Barbican
Battle Royale + Introduction
Cinema 2
Haruki Murakami