Battle Royale 1+2 Deluxe 4 DVD Box Set

Battle Royale is one of the year's most amazing movies and a vicious take off on reality TV that turns a high school milieu dominated by cliques and childish relationships into a war zone. Now, I have no actual way of knowing whether venerable Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku had Survivor or programs like it in mind when making the film, or whether those programs influenced the novel by Koshun Takami upon which it is based. But the film is permeated by a sadism that’s redolent of the voyeuristic pleasure American audiences have taken in Survivor and programs like it, entertainment that involves the humiliation of at least one participant per week on national television. A Japnanese film that elucidates hard times in what seems to be an alternate universe Japan ("the nation collapsed and 15 percent unemployment and 800,000 students boycotted school"), and pits adults versus teenagers by explaining that the government passed something called the Millennium Educational Reform Act, which apparently provides for one class of ninth graders to be chosen each year and set at each other's throats in a "Battle Royale" set in a remote locale. Each student is given a weapon, and all are warned that only one shall survive.

Description of Battle Royale 2:

Tokyo, a dirty orange red late afternoon. Suddenly Shinjuku's skyscrapers all tremble and collapse. Japan has fallen victim to terrorism, and the perpetrators are WIld 7, a Japanese group lead by Shuya Nanahara, survivor of the Battle Royale program from the first movie.

When Wild 7 subsequently claims credit for the bombing and declares a war against the government of Japan, the government responds the way it knows best: it launches a new Battle Royale program whereby a lucky class of junior high school graduates are sent on a do or die mission to kill Shuya Nanahara and Wild 7.

The moment the junior high school students are herded into a giant cage and their teacher Riki Takeuchi strolls to the front of the room, it is clear that BR2 is going to be different from Battle Royale. Addressing his hysterical students, Takeuchi explains that the white line bisecting the room divides those on the 'winning team' from those on the 'losing team'; those on one side will fight for the government to exterminate the terrorists, and those on the other side will be killed. One by one, as Takeuchi does a roll call, the students all cross over to the 'winning' side, picking up their kit in agreement to the terms of the game. All students except one, that is a single boy, Shintaro Makimura, refuses to recognize the authority of the game. Shot in the leg, Takeuchi asks him to reconsider, but he is obstinate and is executed in front of the other students, still clutching the rugby ball from the class's last game, signed wth friendship messages from all members of the class.

Additional Infomation:

This is the Legal Asian Release
The DVDs are Region FREE
It will work on Any DVD Player, PS2, Xbox