User:Mute Massacre

Kiriyama is an enigmatic character introduced as the sociopathic transfer student, who signed up as a volunteer for the Battle Royale Program. In the film, his only apparent motive is given by Shogo Kawada, who says he signed up "for fun". Not much else is known, as the wild-haired Kiriyama says nothing and only smiles with glee as he murders his classmates with assorted weapons such as a submachine gun, a katana, and grenades. Having suffered from a brain injury during a car accident while in utero, he lost the ability to process basic human emotions such as remorse and fear, which made him indifferent to the suffering of others. This also makes him an efficient, Terminator-esque killer, with no morals to keep him from callously murdering his classmates. Some like to like to think of Kazuo Kiriyama as the prostitute classmate of his, Mitsuko Souma who seduces and murders many of the boys, but there's a big difference between the two. She, unlike Kiriyama, has a concious. Finally, Shogo Kawada kills Kiriyama, first by shooting him in his leg after he is blinded by Shinji Mimura's bomb, then into his collar, which subsequently explodes. And Shogo Kawada later dies from the bullet wounds recieved in the gunfight with Kiriyama. Overall, Kiriyama is viewed as an antagonist who put an end to everyone's sub-plot. Shinji Mimura's attempt to build a bomb and escape from the Island, Hiroki Sugimura plans on expressing his feelings to the girl of his dreams, and Mitsuko Souma's plans of murdering everyone on the Island. But most importantly, Shogo Kawada's plan of having more than one person survive the game. Although two remained, and his goals were 'more than one', his originally planned on living, aswell.