Battle Royale II: Requiem
| Movie | |
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| German title | Battle Royale II: Requiem |
| Original title | バ ト ル ・ ロ ワ イ ア ル II |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 133 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director |
Kinji Fukasaku , Kenta Fukasaku |
| script |
Kenta Fukasaku , Norio Kida |
| production |
Kimio Kataoka , Mitsuru Kawase |
| music | Masamichi Amano |
| camera | Katsumi Yanagishima |
| cut | Junichi Fujisawa |
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| chronology | |
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Battle Royale II: Requiem ( Japanese バ ト ル ・ ロ ワ イ ア ル II 【
action
Three years after Shuya Nanahara and Noriko Nakagawa survived their Battle Royale, they teamed up with other survivors to form the Wild Seven. They are trying to get the adults to abolish the BR law. Since a government capable of such things is not so easily persuaded with words, they declare war on adults. However, they prefer to let this year's Battle Royale group fight.
This year's class is the Shikanotoride middle school class 3-B (in the German school system class 9B), which consists of 19 boys and 23 girls around the age of 15. It is said that they were selected by a jury. In fact, one of the class volunteered. Shiori Kitano is the daughter of the teacher from the first film. She is not out for revenge, but seeks answers to a few questions that only Shuya Nanahara can give her. A picture her father painted puzzles her. In the middle of the picture you can see a girl who smiles to herself and does not perish. At first she thought that she should be herself, in fact it is "the returnee" Noriko Nakagawa, and she wants to know something about her. Therefore, she volunteers.
The class is on the way back from a trip on a bus when everyone passes out. They are taken to a kind of military camp and equipped with camouflage clothing and explosive collars. You are supposed to kill the leader of the Wild Seven Shuya Nanahara. You have three days to do this. First they are grouped together in pairs. The collars are tracking devices so that you can understand all of their movements. Little by little, parts of the island are being declared danger zones so that they don't just hide somewhere. If you are in one of these zones for too long, the collar will explode. This also happens if one of the two partners dies or if they are more than 50 meters apart. If they don't reach their destination within three days, everyone will die from the collars. They are brought to the island in remote-controlled dinghies, although they are armed with weapons, but initially without ammunition . The newcomers are already pretty decimated during the landing maneuver, as the Wild Seven take them under fire. Only after the landing maneuver is the ammunition dropped by helicopter.
This is followed by a long and hard road until they reach the Wild Seven fortress. Only now do they recognize by whom they are being attacked and set a trap for them. Some of the class don't want to give up because they lost friends and / or family to the bombing of the Wild Seven and see this as their chance for revenge. The remaining survivors try to get together with the Wild Seven. This is made more difficult because there are too many deaths on both sides from the other group. However, they hardly have any other choice, as the Shikanotoride class is also counted among the Wild Seven. After the attack of the class is considered to have failed, a small special unit consisting of adult soldiers is dispatched afterwards, which makes no difference between the actual Wild Seven and the class.
After they come to terms with themselves and the Wild Seven remove the collars from the survivors, the adults send an entire army to the island to end it once and for all. The Wild Seven send the younger members of their group and the class that attacked them through an escape tunnel. The rest of them stay on the island and try to buy time so that the others can escape. Only Shiori remains of the school class as she has not yet received her answers. While one group is fleeing, the other are fighting with the army. However, three of the students decide to turn back in the escape tunnel because they believe it is their fight too. The rest of them continue running through the tunnel and safely reach the mainland. On the island, Shuya now finds out who Shiori is. Shiori gets the answer to the question she was looking for before she too dies. Only a few survive the fight on the island, they also manage to escape. They meet again three months later in an unspecified Arab country.
Kinji Fukasaku
The film should be produced similarly to the first. Kenta Fukasaku wrote the script and his father Kinji Fukasaku would direct the film . Kenta Fukasaku's starting point was only the first film, the book and, from his father, the terms war , terrorism and Shuya Nanahara as reference points . Kinji Fukasaku developed testicular cancer while preparing . The only scene he shot is the flashback with Takeshi Kitano and Ai Maeda . After that, his condition became critical and he died a little later. After a break in filming, his son took over the direction and completed the film.
Revenge
There is an extended version of the film called Battle Royale II “Tokubetsuhe”: Revenge ( バ ト ル ・ ロ ワ イ ア ル II 【特別 篇】 REVENGE). This edition contains around 20 minutes of additional material. In addition to various recut scenes, some new scenes were added. The middle section in particular has been extended by several minutes so that the viewer can learn more about individual characters, their backgrounds and relationships.
Awards
At the Mainichi Eiga Concours 2004 Toshihiro Isomi won the prize for artistic direction and Norio Kida and Kenta Fukasaku the prize for the best screenplay. Tatsuya Fujiwara was nominated for Best Actor at the Award of the Japanese Academy in 2004.
Trivia
- Quentin Tarantino was supposed to play a small role, but didn't have time. He was supposed to play the President of the United States .
- " Alea iacta est " is the saying on the Wild Seven flag. There is also a Latin saying that is written on a wall in chalk: " Dum spiro spero ". It is said: “As long as I breathe, I hope”.
- The name of the Wild Seven is derived from the book. There it is the nickname of Shuya Nanahara due to his special achievements in baseball . It is called there Wild Card Nanahara: Nana means seven, this results in Wild Seven (wild seven). In fact, the core force consists of seven members, but there are a few more. It is also the name of the cigarette brand that Kawada smokes in the book all the time.
- The webpage Shiori is viewing on her laptop at the beginning of the film is actually the official webpage for the film.
publication
The film was released on March 20, 2012 by Anchor Bay Entertainment under the title Battle Royale: The Complete Collection in the USA on Blu-Ray. In addition to the "normal" version of the film, it contains the first part of Battle Royale in the Director's Cut and the Theatrical Cut in Japanese and English with English subtitles. In Germany, the film was marketed on DVD from May 4, 2004 .
Soundtrack
Masamichi Amano was again responsible for the music . As in the first film, the music was recorded by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and is also based on classical pieces.
Web links
- Battle Royale II: Requiem in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information about Battle Royale and the upcoming film (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions Requiem-Theatrical Version - Revenge Special Edition of Battle Royale II: Requiem at Schnittberichte.com