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Battle Royale (2000)

Battle Royale is a 2000 Japanese action thriller film adapted from the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. It is the final film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, the screenplay written by his son Kenta, and stars Takeshi Kitano. The film tells the story of Shuya Nanahara, a high-school student struggling with the death of his father, who is forced by the government to compete in a deadly game where the students must kill each other in order to win. The film aroused both domestic and international controversy and was either banned outright or deliberately excluded from distribution in several countries.

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Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Distributor: Toei Company
Release date: December 16, 2000
Running time: 113 minutes (Original release)
Budget: US$4.5 million
Gross: JP¥|Japanese yen3.11 billion (US$25,000,000+) (Japan)

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