Battle Royale Limited Edition [4K Ultra-HD] [Blu-ray]

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everything we’d been taught in school, about how Japan was fighting the war to win world peace, was a pack of lies. In response, the government has adapted the BR ACT, forcing those chosen to compete to fight together as a strike force against the rebels on their island fortress, pitting innocent children against desperate freedom fighters in a battle to the death. Including one card for the rules of the game, there are 42 cards featuring the characters, and their vital statistics. I was still in my twenties when I first watched Battle Royale, still of an age when its story and the social satire would be effective, and the world was a different place too, not as divisive or as reactionary.

There’s a 51-page booklet that includes a list of cast and crew, notes about the transfer and remaster, the same Director’s Statement included above, and four essays on the film ( Classroom Chaos: The Millennial Pull of Battle Royale (2020) by Matt Alt, The Doom Generation (2020) by Anne Billson, Today’s Lesson Is… You Kill Each Other (2010) by Jay McRoy, and The Kid Killers: Kinji Fukasaku Interview (2001) by Steve Rose). It is a great film and on the back of it so many games have created specific Battle Royale modes of play which have become some of the most popular modes in these games. I try not to watch the same film twice in the same year, and put the new set at the bottom of the to-watch pile. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used except with the prior written permission of The Digital Bits, Inc.They offer an abundance of interesting background information on the director and his long career, as well as production details and context for the film. Overseeing the carnage is 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano (Sonatine, Hana-bi, Zatoichi) as the teacher pushed to the edge by his unruly charges. Granted Japan loves to take risks, especially when it comes to violence, sex and more like Takashi Miike‘s catalogue that ranges from family friendly films all the way to violent works that ended with some cuts or bans in some regions. That’s virtually all of the special features that have been produced over the years (save for a few items created by Capelight Pictures’ for recent German BD releases).

Additionally, theSadly, Requiem—which was to be the final film of Kinji Fukasaku’s career (he directed only a single scene before his untimely death from cancer)—is not particularly good. I have to say that there is an aspect of the film which does benefit from this, little moments of space to breathe between the mayhem, and more opportunities to touch base with the first film. If they try to fight back against those behind things, or if they enter any forbidden area the collars will detonate, killing them.