The invention provides a biaxially oriented polyarylene sulfide resin film which is formed from a resin composition comprising 100 parts by mass of a polyarylene sulfide resin and 0.1 to 30 parts by mass of a syndiotactic polystyrene resin, wherein the center-line average roughness (Ra) is within the range of 0.01 to 0.09 [mu]m with the maximum height (Rmax) being at most 1.0 [mu]m, and the coefficient of static friction is at most 1.00, while the coefficient of kinetic friction is at most 0.70; and a process for the production of the same.