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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)

Directed by Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku

Thriller | Action

Most recently watched by twobitme, sensoria

Overview

It’s three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an internationally-known terrorist determined to bring down the government. His terrorist group, Wild Seven, stages an attack that levels several buildings in Tokyo on Christmas Day, killing 8000 people. In order for the government to study the benefits of “teamwork”, the new students work in pairs, with their collars electronically linked so that if one of them is killed, the other dies as well. They must kill Nanahara in three days - or die.

Rated NR | Length 155 minutes

Actors

Shugo Oshinari | Ai Maeda | Tatsuya Fujiwara | Ayana Sakai | Takeshi Kitano | Natsuki Kato | Aki Maeda | Riki Takeuchi | Takeru Shibaki | Makoto Sakamoto | Yuki Ito | Ryo Katsuji | Ryoji Fujihira | Kouta Yamada | Kenji Harada | Takeshi Tanaka | Munetaka Aoki | Kei Tamura | Toshiyuki Toyonaga | Takaaki Ikeyama | Kotaru Kamijou | Masaya Kikawada | Yasutake Yuboku | Kazuki Yamamoto | Musashi Kubota | Aiko Moriuchi | Miyuki Kanbe | Haruka Suenaga | Shoko Sato | Michiho Matsumoto | Asami Katsura | Ami Nakagawa | Minami Kanazawa | Riasu Arama | Asuka Shingu | Nana Yanagisawa | 蓝天野 | Aja | Maika Matsumoto | Rika Sakagushi | Hitomi Hasebe | Mika Kikuchi | Sae Shimizu | Chisato Miyao | Yuuko Morimoto | Kayo Nayuki | Yuma Ishigaki | Yoko Maki | Mitsuru Murata | Miku Kuga | Soko Wada | Ai Iwamura | Maki Hamada | Sonny Chiba | Masahiko Tsugawa | Yoshiko Mita | Kazutoshi Yokoyama

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
03/05/2004TVDVDOwned5.5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

I finally saw Kinji Fukasaku’s long anticipated sequel his ‘00 cult-hit Battle Royale - Battle Royale II: Requiem. and while it was still entertaining it wasn’t half the movie that the original is. I expected this after reading many a review beforehand so my expectations were tempered going in and yet I still found myself disappointed thru-out the viewing. Riki Takeuchi (Dead or Alive trilogy) replaces Beat Takeshi in the sensei role and totally overplays it compared to Kitano’s lowkey, subtitle performance that really made BR1 an instant classic (I still can’t believe that Riki’s only a few years older than me!). Overall BR2 pales in comparison to the original but recommended viewing nevertheless.

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