I am truly glad that this film has come out of mainstream Japanese cinema. It had the power and emotional content, that while not necessarily apparent in the dialogue was visible on screen at all times. Firstly to get it out of the way I will say that I loved this movie, although at no point did I feel comfortable while watching it. Yet it was a film that the US mainstream could never have conceived making. This film is film that I believed had to be made, and it was only a matter of time before it was. Requiems that show the real flashbacks, and we hear the dialog during Noriko's dream.An additional shot of Mimura triggering the explosives on the truck.A scene with Mitsuko as a 9-year-old coming home to find a pedophile in her house.Kitano shutting down power to the computers and ordering the soldiers to reboot after the Third Man attack.Additional shots of postcards from Mimura's uncle.An additional shot of Nanahara weeping at the top of the lighthouse.Closer shots of Takiguchi and Hatagami's corpses.A flashback shot of Mizuho and Inada and Kaori Minami to remind us of who they were when we see their bodies.Added reaction shots of the kids in the classroom to Kitano's 'Do you know this law' question, and after Kuninobu's death.Added CGI blood to make the shootouts more graphic Also, many shots were added, deleted, reedited, and extended for pacing and clarity purposes, including the following:.Battle Royale is a contemporary Japanese pulp classic now available for the first time in English.The Special Version includes the following: Koushun Takami's brutal, high-octane thriller is told in breathless. A group of high school students are taken to small isolated island and forced to fight each other until only one remains alive! If they break the rules a special collar blows their heads off. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan-where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller-Battle Royale is a Lord of the Fliesfor the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world.

Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. In an alternative future Japan, junior high students are forced to fight to the death! L to R (Western Style).

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