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One Of The Most Controversial Film Series Of All TimeNow Available For The First Time In America
In 2000, executive Kinji Fukasaku unleashed BATTLE ROYALE, his vigourously elegant epic about an trusting organisation of Junior High students forced by a supervision to hunt and kill their classmates for sport. It was nominated for 10 Japanese Academy Awards, launched a tellurian phenomenon, and criminialized from screens by fearful county groups and distributors opposite America. Three years later, a equally unfortunate supplement -- featuring a new class, new rules, and a heartless militant tract by a initial film's immature survivors -- triggered a possess comfortless firestorm around a world. Now for a initial time ever, we can see it all: Experience a whole BATTLE ROYALE tale on 4 discs -- including some-more than 3 hours of decisive Special Features -- that perpetually blasts open one of a many potent, intolerable and savagely successful sagas in suit design history.
''My favorite film of a final 20 yearsI wish we had done this movie.'' - Quentin Tarantino
''If we adore The Hunger Games, Battle Royale sets a stage. One of a best - and many aroused - genre films ever made. It's also a ruin of a lot of fun.'' - Entertainment Weekly
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #47 in DVD
- Released on: 2012-03-20
- Rating: Unrated
- Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 4
- Format: Widescreen
- Original language: Japanese
- Subtitled in: English, Japanese
- Dubbed in: English
- Running time: 368 minutes
Editorial Reviews
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With a Japanese now heading a proceed in thought-provoking cinematic violence, it's usually wise that Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale is being touted as a Clockwork Orange for a 21st century. Based on a novel by Koshun Takami, a film opens with a array of passing images of uncontrolled Japanese schoolchildren, whose bad function provides a justification for a "punishments" that will ensue. Once a prequel has been dispensed with, a classmates are unperceiving and incite on an island where they find they have been propitious with dog collars that guard their any move. Instructed by their aged clergyman ("Beat" Takeshi) with a assist of an upbeat MTV-style video, they are told of their fate: after an usually lottery they have been selected to quarrel any other in a three-day, no-rules contest, a "Battle Royale." Their usually possibility of presence is by a genocide of all their classmates. Some pupils welcome their goal with zeal, while others simply give adult or try to turn peacemakers and revolutionaries. However, a ultimate expostulate for presence comes from a enterprise to strengthen a one we love. Battle Royale works on many conflicting levels, highlighting a authorities' recklessness to make law and sequence and a disunion caused by a era gap. Whether we cruise a film an critical amicable explanation or simply watch it for a adrenaline-fueled violence, this is set to turn cult observation for a mechanism diversion era and beyond. --Nikki Disney
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71 of 77 people found a following examination helpful.
The Shocking Japanese Classic Available As A Stand-Alone Or In A Four Disc Set
By K. Harris
With a presentation of "The Hunger Games" materialisation of a final few years, a unavoidable comparisons between that authorization and a cult novel "Battle Royale" by Koushun Takami have been plentiful. Sure, a dual do share clever thematic and account similarities, yet any has a clearly singular vibe and explores a behind story behind a assault in a conflicting way. The film instrumentation of "Battle Royale" by executive Kenji Fukasaku garnered roughly present general prominence in 2000 for a disturbingly dour mural of kids set on one another in a aroused genocide match. Despite being criminialized and reviled by many, a story's abdominal and romantic punch was tough to deny. It was nominated for countless Japanese Academy Awards including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Screenplay and won that country's "Popularity Award." The gossip that Hollywood was flirting with an American reconstitute has been present for years, yet some seem to cruise that a film instrumentation of "The Hunger Games" competence have harm a odds of this occurrence. In any event, we never had high hopes that an American interpretation could opposition a original.
"Battle Royale" is being expelled in dual incarnations, a film usually DVD/ Blu-ray or "The Complete Collection" DVD/Blu-ray.
Film Only: This includes a Director's Cut of a film. First, a story is about a destiny Japan whose economy is in fall and whose crime rate is spiraling out-of-control. In an bid to rage this uptick in assault by a youthful population, a supervision has authorised an annual contest. In a movie, forty-two center propagandize aged students are forsaken off and left to conflict one another for survival. They are armed and coerced into fighting, for there can be usually one leader left alive. As mostly as I've seen this movie, it never fails to startle and disquiet me as it is unusually heated and powerful. Some protest that it isn't as "good" as a source novel (which is a flattering common evidence with many translations from a page to a screen), yet we cruise this is a adventurous and brazen film that succeeds entirely on a possess merits. I'm not, however, a outrageous fan of a Director's Cut. we don't cruise a additional footage adds discernible value to a film and we don't adore a extended finale. This chronicle has no special features.
Complete Collection (4 discs): The 4 discs are (1) Director's Cut of a film (see above), (2) Theatrical Cut, (3) 2003's "Battle Royale II" and (4) Bonus Content Disc. While we would positively cruise a strange "Battle Royale" as a classic, a supplement is reduction so. It carries a same judgment over to a new category with some variations on a strange theme, yet a vital disproportion is that an subterraneous tract by an astonishing militant dungeon plays a vast partial in this year's action. It's plain enough, we like it. It usually lacks a romantic flog of a initial film.
Bonus Disc Content enclosed in Complete Collection only. This is on a customary DVD even in a Blu-Ray set (but all 3 films are on Blu-ray). The Making Of BATTLE ROYALE, BATTLE ROYALE Press Conference, Instructional Video: Birthday Version, Audition & Rehearsal Footage, Special Effects Comparison Featurette, Tokyo International Film Festival 2000, Battle Royale Documentary, Basketball Scene Rehearsals, Behind-The-Scenes Featurette, Filming On-Set, Original Theatrical Trailer, Special Edition TV Spot, TV Spot: Tarantino Version. It's a lot of Bonus Material, yet it has been used on Special Edition International versions of a DVD and is not new to this set (although now it is subtitled appropriately). Blu-Ray films have 1080p video and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtracks. KGHarris, 1/12.
8 of 10 people found a following examination helpful.
We, who are about to die...,
By Zack Davisson
So. At prolonged last, a argumentative film "Battle Royale" gets an central US release.
I suspect we have The Hunger Games to appreciate for that, bringing new seductiveness to this film, as good a stretch from a 2003 genocide of executive Fukasaku Kinji. Fukasaku, a peacemaker and anti-violence activist, is best famous in Japan for his array Battles Without Honor & Humanity. He against an American recover of "Battle Royale" fearing that Americans would not see a deeper summary and usually be vehement by a violence, that was a conflicting goal of his film.
Based off of a 1999 novel of a same name by Takami Koshun, Fukasaku also combined his personal believe during WWII to "Battle Royale." As a child operative in a munitions factory, when a Americans forsaken bombs on a bureau Fukasaku and a rest of a children would hurl themselves into a dogpile. Afterwards a stable ones on a bottom would puncture themselves out from a burnt corpses on top. This believe taught Fukasaku something about a will to tarry even during a cost of a deaths of friends, and lead to his loathing and dread of supervision and bureaucracy that would frankly send children to their deaths in such a manner.
"Battle Royale" is mostly compared to Lord of a Flies, yet that is a bit of a misnomer. "Lord of a Flies" was about reverting to primitivism, given "Battle Royale" is a unconventional cautionary story in a balance of 1984 and Brave New World. The counsel during work here is a hazard of comprehensive bureaucracy, and a dangers of a detriment of a value of life and honour in a rules-dominated society. This is a hazard utterly apparent in complicated Japan.
The actors in "Battle Royale" all broach glorious performances, including a extraordinary talent "Beat" Kitano Takeshi personification a reasonably named "Kitano." Because a film was not unfailing by Kitano, it lacks his pleasing visible style. It does, however, underline one of his riveting paintings. There is a good operation of responses from a several actors personification a students, from undisguised suicide, to panic, to a expostulate to win to a expostulate to help. Unfortunately, a impression of Kazuo Kiriyama (the appurtenance gun boy) is woefully underdeveloped, and instead of a fierce, cold talent of a book he is a rather prosy villain.
While a aroused film, we wouldn't impersonate "Battle Royale" as an movement film, or a fear film. Anyone looking for a Hong Kong-style movement film should comprehend that Japan and China are utterly conflicting countries with conflicting proceed to movies.. "Battle Royale" retains a tranquillity and studious pacing that is a hallmark of Japanese cinema, and that leaves some viewers bored, who are used to a quicker pacing. The bloodshed, while in good quantity, is also some-more cartoony in nature, that is also some-more standard of Japanese films, that does not preference a naturalistic approach.
Ii is critical to remember that "Battle Royal" was not finished for US audiences. There is an expectancy of laxity with Japanese history, as good as complicated governmental issues. Familiarity gives some required viewpoint to this argumentative movie, and helps support it as some-more than exploitation. It is a domestic statement, with a pointed summary underlying a sincere violence. Along with this, believe of Japanese enlightenment deepens a understandings of certain scenes, such as when Kitano performs a prescribed exercises, and a training video shown during a beginning. Without understanding, these scenes competence come off as merely old-fashioned or odd.
This collection also facilities a sequel, "Battle Royale II." This was finished after Fukasaku Kinji's death, and was unfailing by his son Fukasaku Kenta. The supplement is vastly inferior, and not even unequivocally value watching. It is good to have for completeness sake, we suppose, yet that is a best that can be pronounced about it.
6 of 8 people found a following examination helpful.
Taboo and Compelling
By Daniella Obraztsov
This is a good time to recover this collection, with a hype of a Hunger Games and all. we review this book and film prolonged before a Hunger Games, and when we started to review those books, we swore it contingency have been formed on Battle Royale! Although a author of Hunger Games totally denies meaningful of Battle Royale's existence before essay them, a grounds is hauntingly familiar. Throw children into really dangerous territory, and a final one alive is a winner.
Why would anyone wish to watch such a wandering film about children slaughtering any other? Curious minds and banned things draws many people's attention. If it's finished right, it can be an meaningful masterpiece. And that's how we would systematise Battle Royale. It is provocative, unfailing to means controversy, and creates we cruise about a universe in a not-so-great light. This is indeed Quentin Tarantino's favorite film given he began directing in 1992, and we can see why. With a non-stop, gritty, heartless movement and engaging characters, this is a banned must-see.
While a Hunger Games is good, it seems a small feathery compared to this. This is really dirty and not for a gloomy of heart. If we are a Hunger Games fan and extraordinary about this though, you'll really adore it. Cult classic!
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