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Boy #1 in Battle Royale II, Takuma Aoi (青井 拓馬, Aoi Takuma) (nicknamed Taku (タク)) is a delinquent from Shikanotoride Middle School. He, along with his entire class, gets chosen to participate in the revised Battle Royale system, wherein a class would have to charge into a terrorist base under orders to kill the leader of said terrorists.
The character Kazuo Kiriyama is given a harisen in the movie Battle Royale. Kaname Chidori of the anime Full Metal Panic uses a harisen that she seems to pull out from hammerspace to stop Sousuke Sagara from doing anything that could injure or kill a civilian in Tokyo; at one point, her harisen is seen to be extendable and takes up as much ...
Battle Royale was released on December 16, 2000, in Japan. [6] [7] Over the next two years, Battle Royale was distributed to cinemas in 22 countries, [8] across Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America (in addition to Mexico), gaining early cult film followings in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and the Philippines.
Rei Kiriyama (桐山 零), protagonist of the manga series March Comes in like a Lion; Yui Kiriyama (桐山 唯), a character in the light novel series Kokoro Connect; Kazuo Kiriyama (きりやま かずお), a character in the novel, manga and film Battle Royale
Map of Okishima Island, seen inside the cover of the 2003 English translation. Battle Royale takes place in a fictional fascist Japan in the year 1997. The state, known as the Republic of Greater East Asia (大東亜共和国, Dai Tōa Kyōwakoku), arose after an alternate World War II where Japan emerged victorious, and a rebellion was put down by the combined military and police forces.
Chiaki Kuriyama (栗山 千明, Kuriyama Chiaki, born October 10, 1984) is a Japanese actress, singer, and model. She is best known in the West for her roles as Takako Chigusa in Kinji Fukasaku's 2000 film Battle Royale and Gogo Yubari in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 film Kill Bill: Volume 1.
Two actors who respectively portrayed characters in both Battle Royale and its 2003 sequel, Battle Royale II: Requiem, also appear in TOKYO 10+01: Masanobu Andō, who played the character Kazuo Kiriyama in Battle Royale, and Natsuki Kato, who played the character Saki Sakurai in Battle Royale II.
Battle Royale (Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル, Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru) is a Japanese manga series written by Koushun Takami and illustrated by Masayuki Taguchi. It is based on Takami's novel of the same name, telling the story of a class of junior high school children who are forced to fight each other to the death.