Battle Royale II
| Battle Royale II: Requiem | |
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| Directed by |
Kenta Fukasaku Kinji Fukasaku |
| Produced by | Kimio Kataoka |
| Screenplay by | Kenta Fukasaku Norio Kida |
| Based on |
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami |
| Starring |
Tatsuya Fujiwara Ai Maeda Shugo Oshinari |
| Music by | Masamichi Amano |
| Cinematography | Toshihiro Isomi |
| Edited by | Hirohide Abe |
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| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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133 minutes(Original release) 152 minutes(Extended cut) |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | USD$9 million |
| Box office | USD$14,902,587 |
Battle Royale II: Requiem (バトル・ロワイアルＩＩ 【鎮魂歌】 Batoru rowaiaru tsū: "Rekuiemu"), abbreviated as BRII (Bii āru tsū), is a 2003 Japanese dystopian action film. It is a sequel to the 2000 film, Battle Royale, which in turn was based upon a controversial 1999 novel of the same title by Koushun Takami. An extended version of the film is titled Battle Royale II: Revenge.
Director Kinji Fukasaku, who directed the first film, started work on the sequel but died of prostate cancer on January 12, 2003, after shooting only one scene with Takeshi Kitano. His son Kenta Fukasaku, who wrote the screenplay for both films, completed the film and dedicated it to his father.
McKoy Sugie (杉江 松恋 Sugie Makkoi) wrote the novelization of the film.
Three years after the events of the first film, the survivors of previous Battle Royales have formed a rebel group called the Wild Seven which is led by Shuya Nanahara. A class of teenagers from Shikanotoride Junior High School (鹿之砦中学校 Shikanotoride Chūgakkō) are kidnapped by the Japanese government. Instead of stereotypically studious Japanese students, these ninth graders are “a ragtag collection of delinquents and losers from all over Japan,” including tough-guy rugby players and punks with dyed hair. More importantly, many are orphans whose parents or family died in bombings by the Wild Seven. After their school bus is diverted to an army base, the students are herded into a cage, surrounded by armed guards, and confronted by their schoolteacher, Riki Takeuchi, who lays down the ground rules of the new Battle Royale game. Wild Seven is hiding out on a deserted island (filmed on Hashima Island), and instead of being forced to kill each other, as in the old Battle Royale, the students are sent off to war and ordered to attack the terrorist group’s hideout en masse and kill Shuya within 72 hours. Most of the students are not interested in being forced to avenge their families, but they are coerced to fight through exploding metal collars, which their captors can detonate by remote control. The teacher shows them a line in the caged classroom: those who wish to participate are instructed to cross the line, while those who refuse to participate will be killed. The students are put into 'pairs'; if one student dies, then his or her partner will be killed via collar detonation.
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