Kazuo Kiriyama is the secondary antagonist of the 2000 Japanese action tragedy novel, manga, and film Battle Royale. He was portrayed by Masanobu Ando (安藤 政信) in the film.
Joining Johan Liebert's group[]
After Shion Sonozaki betrayed Johan, he sends Francis Dolarhyde to recruit a much more brutal and ruthless teenage villain than Shion to take her place. Francis Dolarhyde comes back with a villain from the Battle Royale Universe and his name is Kazuo Kiriyama that got teleported before his bomb collar can be detonated. Since the bomb collars signal couldn't be brought into dimensional worlds Kazuo was safe and had his bomb collar taken off to be used by Dr. Finitevus in duplicating that technology to use in a sadistic game to pit heroes in a Battle Royale to the death tournament of their own for the fun of it where the heroes with bomb collars worn on are separated from their groups to fight for their own freedom and testing their morality if they will stay heroes. Francis Dolarhyde said that Kazuo Kiriyama wishes to join The Murderisitc League, just for the fun of killing every hero and villain that oppose Johan's Group. Johan Liebert was also told by Francis Dolarhyde that Kazuo Kiriyama won't be betraying him since Francis found out he suffered brain damage from a car accident with his family dead and him being the only survivor, turned this once great, kind, and talented boy into a sociopathic serial killer that feels no sense of remorse of what he has done in taking away innocent lives. "This boy is perfect." Johan Liebert said as he now has a more efficiently cold-hearted teenage killing machine on his side. Following the eventual death of Johan Liebert, he goes on his final stand against the heroes. In the end, Kazuo dies for good.
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Trivia[]
- Kazuo Kiriyama earned highly positive reviews by film critics and audiences alike, and Battle Royale remains one of Japan's most critically acclaimed films.
- Kazuo Kirayama's designated number is 6.
- In the film, he is the only student who joined the Program voluntarily for his own amusement.
- His designated weapon was a paper fan, but that didn't matter since he managed to kill off many students by surprise who had very strong weapons and used those to start his rampage on the island to start having fun playing the Program.
- He was the deadliest player and had the highest body count with a total of 12.