Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ai Maeda (II), Shûgo Oshinari

Three years after the events in "Battle Royale," Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara)is a well-known terrorist bent on bringing down the government. In response, they order the creation of the "Battle Ro...( read more  read more... )yale 2" program, and send a class of junior-high students to catch and kill him.

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Unrated, 134 min.

Directed by: Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku

Release Date: January 1, 2003

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DVD Release Date: May 4, 2004

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  • November 5, 2009
    What in the shit happened here?

    When veteran director Kinji Fukasaku died during the making of Requiem, his son Kenta took up the reins. Does it ever show. One can't help but compare the film to its' predecessor which focused on the personal dynamics of the students and lef...( read more)t the audience to draw their own conclusions as to what the film had to say. The dark humor and social commentary in the first film (which can still be debated) are replaced by highly cartoonish action and even sillier interaction. Also, we have Beat Takeshi's "wearied school-teacher" character replaced by Riki Takeuchi, who looks as if he's stepped off a tour bus with rap group Public Enemy. His acting is just too over-the-top and without any emotional depth to be taken seriously. His scenes would be perfect in director Takashi Miike's tongue-in-cheek action flicks but in this film, it's a waste of credibility.

    Some points are awarded to the editing and the rhythm of the film. Camerawork is nice and you can say that too about the sound design. I'm sure this looked really good on paper, but without a strong director at the helm, you end up with results like this.

    Battle Royale With Cheese.

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  • September 4, 2009
    Unfortunately the sequel is very disappointing. Its messy, tired and complicated. The original was so good, its should have been left at that.
  • August 3, 2008
    7-31-08
    Added 1 star because of top production value and because I like the new "welcome to BR/take your packs" scene. The story and premise still suck, and this is full of too many missed opportunities for or awkward inclusion of minute, but important, references to the first mo...( read more)vie.

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    What can I say other than "this sucks because it is completely without direction and a resounding theme (or even just a decent one) but instead is just a restaging of many famous battle scenes, except with teenaged kids in stupid uniforms (they have ORANGE in them) instead of Nazis, Navy Seals, Green Berets, or typical adult army grunts".
    Here the "kids' view vs. the grownups' view" is downplayed due to an emphasis on a political commentary on the United States as a nation that is obsessed with "bombing terrorists" and has the long list of nations bombed to prove it (That's what the lesson is at the beginning, not stuff about BR and the internal stresses in Japanese society causing the BR Act, but which countries the US has bombed in the last fifty years (to which I say, look at everyone else's records too; fifty years is a long time). But I guess it is saying something about the outgoing Bushie that even as early as 2003, foreign genre films were already laced with an anti-Bush backbone.
    Another large statement is trying to be made about "terrorists", how the only difference between "revolutionary" and "terrorist" is the outcome of the declared war. A true thing, but not communicated properly; they should have read Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta" granted the movie version wasn't out yet but that central idea and concise execution has existed for hundreds of years. Just take a better model from the political war genre and plug in your characters and instantly this could have been a great B version of 'City of God'.
    Get the first movie in a high definition version; don't waste time on this misstep of a sequel.
  • June 11, 2008
    This was an absolutely HORRIBLE sequel to the jaw-dropping original.
  • June 10, 2008
    Battle Royale II started out very well. A new class and a new game. The game was switched up enough to not be a repatition of the first, but had a similar feel. The budget was beefed up from the first one and it's evident in film quality. The battle scenes have a strong "Savi...( read more)ng Private Ryan" to them. The movie strays somewhere in the middle. I'm not against the direction they took, but the feel of the movie switched and got way too lengthy. BRII could've been trimmed down by 30 minutes. I thought the movie was about to end 3 different times and it kept going. Overall still entertaining, probably not what your hoping for in comparison to the first.
  • October 26, 2009
    Horrible. No... AWFUL. No relation to the 1st instalment.
  • October 5, 2009
    Story is very poorly done.
  • October 3, 2009
    let me start by saying that I really LOVED the OG Battle Royale. It was truly an unpredictable roller coaster ride that will leave you wanting more. So naturally when I was told there was a 2nd movie & that it was a continuation to the events of part 1....let's just say I was gid...( read more)dy as a school girl.

    This movie is completely different in every way shape or form than the OG. the beginning was very promising but unfortunately they lose you about half hour in. I stuck it through lying to myself that it would get better. Towards the end, I was just wishing for all of them to perish (harsh but my feelings to the T)

    Please watch the original and never EVER watch this horrible film. They shouldn't even refer to it as BR part 2.....pricks!
  • September 25, 2009
    Not as well as I thought!

    I've heard a lot of good things about Battle Royale (but more the 1st movie than the 2d), so, I bought it and was impatient to watch it.
    So, bigger was my disappointment when I saw it.
    But I anyways still want to see the 1st film, as I think it's really...( read more) better.
  • September 21, 2009
    Didn't lose its grip but more action this time..Great

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  • asiantribe
    August 20, 2006
    The film does not use any elements of Takami's novel, save for a few characters.
  • kirathepirate
    July 9, 2006
    This sequel did nothing for me. You barely got a chance to understand the characters before their death, which is what made the first film so amazing! The anti America undertones were absolutely ridiculous, and the writer didn’t even have the guts to mention America… it was known as “That Country”

    Perhaps the problem was that the original creator’s son took over the project after his father’s death… bad idea. Would any of you trust your parents with your greatest piece of work?

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