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Seen on: 03/05/2004

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Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)

Directed by Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku

Thriller | Action

Most recently watched by sensoria, sleestakk

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

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

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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