the film
At the dawn of the Millenium, the nation collapsed. At 15% unemployment, 10 million were out of work, 800,000 students boycotted school. The adults lost confidence, and fearing the youth, eventually passed the 'Millenium Educational Reform Act'...AKA: The BR Act.
director: Kinji Fukasaku
based on: novel Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
screenplay: Kenta Fukasaku
released: 16th December, 2000
cast:
Boy # (played by)
Boy #1 Yoshio Akamatsu (Shin Kusaka)
Boy #2 Keita Iijima (Ren Matsuzawa)
Boy #3 Tatsumichi Oki (Goki Nishimura)
Boy #4 Toshimori Oda (Shigehiro Yamaguchi)
Boy #5 Shougo Kawada (Taro Yamamoto)
Boy #6 Kazuo Kiriyama (Masanobu Ando)
Boy #7 Yoshitoki Kuninobu (Yukihiro Kotani)
Boy #8 Yoji Kuramoto (Osamu Onishi)
Boy #9 Hiroshi Kuronaga (Yuuki Masuda)
Boy #10 Ryuhei Sasagawa (Shiro Go)
Boy #11 Hiroki Sugimura (Sosuke Takaoka)
Boy #12 Yutaka Seto (Yutaka Shimada)
Boy #13 Yuuichirou Takiguchi (Junichi Naito)
Boy #14 Shou Tsukioka (Shigeki Hirokawa)
Boy #15 Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara)
Boy #16 Kazushi Niida (Hirohito Honda)
Boy #17 Mitsuru Numai (Yosuke Shibata)
Boy #18 Tadakatsu Hatagami (Satoshi Yokomichi)
Boy #19 Shinji Mimura (Takashi Tsukamoto)
Boy #20 Kyouichi Motobuchi (Ryo Nitta)
Boy #21 Kazuhiko Yamamoto (Yauomi Sano)
Girl # (played by)
Girl #1 Mizuho Inada (Tsuyako Kinoshita)
Girl #2 Yukie Utsumi (Eri Ishikawa)
Girl #3 Megumi Eto (Sayaka Ikeda)
Girl #4 Sakura Ogawa (Tomomi Shimaki)
Girl #5 Izumi Kanai (Tamaki Mihara)
Girl #6 Yukiko Kitano (Yukari Kanasawa)
Girl #7 Yumiko Kusaka (Misao Kato)
Girl #8 Kayoko Kotohiki (Takayo Mimura)
Girl #9 Yuko Sakaki (Hitomi Hyuga)
Girl #10 Hirono Shimizu (Anna Nagata)
Girl #11 Mitsuko Souma (Kou Shibasaki)
Girl #12 Haruka Tanizawa (Satomi Ishii)
Girl #13 Takako Chigusa (Chiaki Kuriyama)
Girl #14 Mayumi Tendou (Haruka Nomiyama)
Girl #15 Noriko Nakagawa (Aki Maeda)
Girl #16 Yuka Nakagawa (Satomi Hanamura)
Girl #17 Satomi Noda (Sayaka Kamiya)
Girl #18 Fumiyo Fujiyoshi (Aki Inoue)
Girl #19 Chisato Matsui (Asami Kanai)
Girl #20 Kaori Minami (Mai Sekiguchi)
Girl #21 Yoshimi Yahagi (Takako Baba)