Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)

Country of Origin: Japan
Year of Production: 2003
Running Times: 134 mins     135 mins (Director's Cut)
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Producer: Shigeyuki Endô

SCRIPT
Script: Kenta Fukasaku, Norio Kida
Characters: Koushun Takami

DIRECTION
Directors: Kenta Fukasaku, Kinji Fukasaku

MUSIC
Music: Masamichi Amano

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Toshihiro Isomi

LOCATIONS
Locations: Nishisinoki-gun, Nagasaki, Japan; Pakistan

CAST
Tatsuya Fujiwara (Shuya Nanahara)
Ai Maeda (Shiori Kitano)
Shûgo Oshinari (Takuma Aoi)
Ayana Sakai (Nao Asakura)
Haruka Suenaga (Haruka Kuze)
Yuma Ishigaki (Mitsugu Sakai)
Miyuki Kanbe (Kyoko Kakei)
Masaya Kikawada (Shintaro Makimura)
Yoko Maki (Maki Hayada)
Yuuki Ito (Ryo Kurosawa)
Natsuki Kato (Saki Sakurai)
Aki Maeda (Noriko Nakagawa)
Riki Takeuchi (Sensei)
Aja (Kazumi Fukuda)
Munetaka Aoki (Jun Nanami)
Riasu Arama (Rena Niimi)
Sonny Chiba (Makio Mimura)
Seiichi Ebina (Tatsuro Morishima)
Ryoji Fujihira (Masami Shibaki)
Maki Hamada (Chizuru)
Ayumi Hanada (Ryoko Hata)
Kenji Harada (Naoki Jo)
Hitomi Hasebu (Asuka Motomura)
Takaaki Ikeyama (Yasuaki Hosaka)
Asuka Ishii (Maho Nosaka)
Hiroaki Ito (soldier)
Ai Iwamura (smiling winner from the 1st Battle Royale)
Kotaru Kamijou (Kenji Maezono)
Minami Kanazawa (Yuko Natsukawa)
Ryo Katsuji (Haruya Sakurai)
Asami Katsura (Risa Shindo)
Mika Kikuchi (Ayane Yagi)
Beat Takeshi (Kitano)
Ryôsuke Koshiba
Musashi Kubota (Wataru Mukai)
Miku Kuga (Kengo Yonai)
Maika Matsumoto (Shiho Matsuki)
Michiho Matsumoto (Sanae Shioda)
Chisato Miyao (Hibiki Yano)
Akane Mizuno
Yuuko Morimoto (Kana Yûki)
Aiko Moriuchi (Miki Ikeda)
Mitsuru Murata (Soji Kazama)
Ami Nakagawa (Honami Totsuka)
Kayo Nayuki (Eri Yoshiyama)
Yûya Nishikawa (Nishi)
Kenji Ohba (Mimura's comrade)
Nanami Oota (Hitoe Takeuchi)
Yuka Ozawa (Shinobu)
Gou Ryugawa (Lieutenant Anjo)
Rika Sakagushi (Yuka Mifune)
Mai Sakamoto (Shoko)
Makoto Sakamoto (Osamu Kasai)
Mikiya Sanada (ATAT soldier)
Shoko Sato (Nozomi Sagisawa)
Takeru Shibaki (Shugo Urabe)
Mitsuki Shimada (Wild Seven member)
Sae Shimizu (Ai Yazawa)
Hikaru Takahashi (ATAT soldier)
Kei Tamura (Tatsuhiko Hasegawa)
Takeshi Tanaka (Masakatsu Taguchi)
Takashi Taniguchi (leader of the Anti-Terrorist Attack Team)
Masumi Tooyoka (Yukari)
Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Shota Hikasa)
Masumi Toyooka (Yukari)
Haruka Umeda (Aya)
Toshihiro Wada (Satoshi Imakire)
Kouta Yamada (Tetsuya Shimura)
Kazuki Yamamoto (Yosuke Miyadai)
Nana Yanagisawa (Mayu Hasuda)
Takahiko Yanagisawa (Shiro)
Kazutoshi Yokoyama (ATAT soldier)
Yasutake Yuboku (Kiyoshi Minamoto)
Takashi Yukawa (Wild Seven member)
Yuuma (child terrorist)

PLOT SUMMARY

Three years after Battle Royale, Shuya Nanahara is an international terrorist determined to bring the corrupt government to its knees. The authorities send a class of high school students to catch and kill him as part of the renewed Battle Royale program.

Germany
Theatrical Distributors: Kinowelt Home Entertainment

Japan
Theatrical Distributors: Toei Co Ltd

Netherlands
Theatrical Distributors: Bright Angel Distribution

UK
Theatrical Distributors: Tartan Films

Australia
Rating: R

Germany
Rating: 18 (JK / SPIO)

Japan
Rating: R-15

South Korea
Rating: 15

UK
Rating: 18

2003
Mainichi Film Concours, Japan
Best Art Direction (Toshihiro Isomi) - winner (also for Keimusho no naka (2002))
Best Screenplay (Norio Kida, Kenta Fukasaku) - winner (tied with Miwa Nishikawa for Hebi ichigo (2003))

2004
Awards of the Japanese Academy, Japan
Best Actor (Tatsuya Fujiwara) - nominated

2003
May
18: France - shown at the Cannes Film Market

July
5: Japan - theatrical release

August
14: Hong Kong - theatrical release

September
19: South Korea - shown at the Megabox Japan Film Festival

November
1: UK - shown at the London Film Festival

2004
January
23: Netherlands - shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam

March
20: Belgium - shown at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Films
25: Netherlands - theatrical release

April
2: South Korea - theatrical release

May
4: Germany - DVD release

August
23: UK - DVD release

October
7: Iceland - video release

December
18: UK - television broadcast (on FilmFour)
28: UK - television broadcast (on FilmFour)

2005
January
20: France - DVD release

This time it's war.

We declare war on all adults!

Battle Royale II

LINKS

SEQUEL TO
Batoru rowaiaru (2000)

MAGAZINES

Sight and Sound vol.14 no.6 (June 2004) pp.46, 48 (UK)
illustrated credits, synopsis, review (by Kim Newman)

the future, islands, sequels, teenagers, terrorists

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008