AZN MOVIES: BATTLE ROYALE 2

TITLE: Battle Royale
TYPE: Japanese Movie
GENRE: Action / Thriller / School
DATE RELEASED: July 5 '03
RUNTIME: 133 mins.

CASTS

Tatsuya Fujiwara

Ai Maeda

Shugo Oshinari

DESCRIPTION
In the sequel, survivors of previous Battle Royales, led by Shuya Nanahara (the hero of the first film), have formed a terrorist group called "Wild Seven". As in the first film, a class of teenagers from Shikanotoride Junior High School (鹿之砦中学校, Shikanotoride Chūgakkō?) are kidnapped by the Japanese government. Instead of stereotypically studious Japanese students, these ninth graders are “a ragtag collection of delinquents and losers from all over Japan,” including tough-guy rugby players and punks with dyed hair. More importantly, many are orphans whose parents or family died in bombings by Wild Seven. After their school bus is diverted to an army base, the students are herded into a cage, surrounded by armed guards, and confronted by their schoolteacher, Riki Takeuchi, who lays down the ground rules of the new Battle Royale game. Wild Seven is hiding out on a deserted island, and instead of being forced to kill each other, as in the old Battle Royale, the students are ordered to attack the terrorist group’s hideout en masse and kill the leader, Shuya Nanahara, within 72 hours. Most of the kids are not interested in being forced to avenge their families, but are coerced to fight through exploding metal collars, which their captors can detonate by remote control. The students are also put into 'pairs'; if one student dies, then his or her 'pair' will also die because of the metal collars set to a certain frequency.
Once again, Shuya — accompanied by survivors of previous "Games" — must fight to survive.
The majority of the film is centered around Shiori Kitano the daughter of the teacher from the first film.
The film does not use any elements of Takami's novel, except for a few characters.
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