Izumi Kanai
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Izumi Kanai (金井泉 Kanai Izumi?) is a character in the novel Battle Royale, and the film and manga of the same name. In the film she was played by Tamaki Mihara. Ai Iwamura "stands-in" for Mihara as Izumi in one of the scenes [1].
Izumi has a blood type of B.
[edit] Pre-Program
Izumi Kanai is one of the class of third-year students at the fictional Shiroiwa Junior High School in the fictional town of Shiroiwa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. She was the daughter of a town official, and grew up as part of a very wealthy family, though she remained very down-to-earth and friendly. She was once selected to run in a relay race at school, but she dropped the baton and burst into tears. In the novel, Yutaka Seto had a crush on her, but she did not know this. She's a part of Yukie Utsumi's group in the novel and the manga.
[edit] During The Program
In the novel, Izumi has her throat slit by Kazuo Kiriyama at the southern tip of the island along with several other students. Izumi is not a member of the "Kiriyama Family," and the book does not provide a reason for why she moves to that location - she happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the original Japanese manga, the same scenario occurs, except Kiriyama shoots Izumi.
In the English-language manga version of the story, she is taken hostage by some of the gang members who are planning to rape her; Izumi is shot to death by Kazuo.
In the movie version, she is shown as one of the gang members, although in the film Kiriyama is not the leader of the gang. In the film she, along with Mitsuru Numai, Hiroshi Kuronaga, Ryuhei Sasagawa, and Sho Tsukioka, confronts Kiriyama and accuses him of being a spy for Kitano. All of the members are killed by Kiriyama. Izumi survives the intial batch of gunfire aimed at the gang members and pleads for her life, only to be felled by a second round of bullets.
