Like the original film, Battle Royale II: Requiem was shot on 35 mm photochemical film using Arriflex 535B cameras with Zeiss and Angenieux spherical lenses, though it appears to have been finished only as a 2K Digital Intermediate at the 1. Terrible storytelling, overly political to the point of distraction, Olympic medal-winning overacting, and overlong, with a broken premise, Battle Royale: Requiem is best avoided. When Class B of Zentsuji Middle School are chosen to take part in the massacre, the different students quickly take sides against each other, but Shuya (Tatsuya Fujiwara) and Noriko (Aki Maeda) form an alliance in an attempt to survive the experience together. But in the grand scheme of things, what you really get is 20 more minutes of a film with an utterly broken premise, and 20 more minutes of excruciating over-acting. Known as the Wild Seven, this group is made up of survivors from multiple years of Battle Royales and is led by Shuya Nanahara (played again by Tatsuya Fujiwara), who has declared war against adults everywhere.

The kids of Third Year Class-B Shiroiwa Junior High School are back, in a brand new 4K restoration of the classic cult shocker adapted from the controversial novel by Koushun Takami. Having seen the film on both DVD and regular Blu-ray I can say that there is a definite difference here, and whilst some of the darker scenes do have a slight bit of grain to them, overall they look fantastic. Each of the discs is packaged in its own cardboard and plastic Mediabook, which then tuck into a sturdy slipcase, all of it adorned with great new cover artwork. Their 2023+ line-up for Asian Cinema is quiet but will include The Executioner Collection from Teruo Ishii, a Bruce Lee 4K box set and once again more volumes of the Shaw Scope series.The other three sleeves contain the Blu-Ray discs and the fronts feature stylised artwork of Kiriyama (Theatrical Release), Kawada (Director's Cut), and Mitsuko (Additional Extras), along with their weapons of choice. For its inclusion in this box set, both Requiem (the Original Theatrical Version, which runs 132:49) and the longer Revenge Cut (the Special Edition Director’s Cut, which runs about 19 minutes longer at 151:50) were remastered digitally from the original DI and are available here in 1080p HD on separate Blu-rays ( Requiem on Disc Three and Revenge on Disc Four). DISC TWO BATTLE ROYALE: SPECIAL EDITION DIRECTORS CUT (4K UHD BLU-RAY) - Shooting the Special Edition, on-location featurette with footage of the cast and crew reuniting for the shoot of the Special Edition - And much more!

The Recording of the Music Score, archive footage of Masamichi Amano and the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra. Now, I’m getting further and further away from its target demographic, the story doesn’t affect me as viscerally, while the satire seems less insightful in a world where Battle Royale seems more prescient than polemic.He has the looks of Johnny Depp matched with the endurance of Jason Vorhees (forgive the comparison!

They are all armed with weaponry worth the name, and now the lethal collars are paired, step too far away from your partner and you die, and if your partner is killed, you will soon follow them into the afterlife.This isn’t an especially boisterous or dynamic mix, but the surround channels are used for modest but constant ambience and you will hear the occasional directional sound effect in action scenes. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Two of the sleeves contain all the printed extras, and have the special edition posters on their fronts. There’s no sign of compression or the like, and the odd soft looking scene seems to be an issue with the original source. Unlike the first film, which gets a whole lot of blurb regarding its transfers on the first two discs, I can find nothing regarding the transfer or restoration applied to the second, so I can only assume that Arrow merely recycled what previous transfers that they could get.