Playing like a turbo-charged hybrid of Lord of the Flies and The Most Dangerous Game, the final completed work by veteran yakuza film director Kinji Fukasaku ( Battles without Honor and Humanity, Graveyard of Honor) helped launch a new wave of appreciation for Asian cinema in the 21st century. Preciosa edición para coleccionar aunque si eres hispanohablante ten presente que no hay opciones de audio o subtítulos en castellano, pues es edición francesa. But this release does give you so much more when it comes to that Tom Mes filmography of Kinji Fukasaku, a substantial hardcover book, and the excellent soundtrack CD, well worth many a listen.

But I make them this way because I don’t believe anyone would ever love or trust the films I make, any other way. We will introduce you exclusively to Newpay finance products provided by NewDay Limited under this Introducer Appointed Representative arrangement. And Bloody Education (on Disc One) and Bloody Graduation (on Disc Three) are brand new interviews with Kenta Fukasaku looking back at both his father’s work on these films as well as his own. Having said that, nothing in the Director's Cut detracts from the film and I felt that it was a slightly superior cut. A sixth digipack isn’t actually a digipack, but a thin box which contains the Battle Royale Trump Cards.The good news is that it is proper HD, a fairly decent transfer with good detail and with no signs of compression. Inspired by Koushun Takami's controversial bestseller, the two films comprising the collection - Battle Royale and Battle Royale II: Requiem - detail a dystopian . Doesn't really make much difference, it just sticks out like a sore thumb when the rest of the film has been polished to such a shine.

Interestingly there’s a manga adaptation of Battle Royale, also written by Koushun Takami, which is apparently pretty good according to the manga community but it’s been out of print for a very long time now. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. As for the rest of the extras, again this is as comprehensive an archive of previously-created content as any fan could ask for.Silver Salt was responsible for mastering and grading the film from the original 35 mm camera negative of the Theatrical version in 4K. Presenting an alternate dystopian vision of turn-of-the-millennium Japan, Battle Royale follows the 42 junior high school students selected to take part in the governments annual Battle Royale programme, established as an extreme method of addressing concerns about juvenile delinquency. As you know, this film has been banned in multiple countries and is not well-appreciated in its own.

When Class B of Zentsuji Middle School are chosen to take part in the massacre, the different students quickly take sides against each other, but Shuya (Tatsuya Fujiwara) and Noriko (Aki Maeda) form an alliance in an attempt to survive the experience together. When Class B of Zentsuji Middle School are chosen to take part in the massacre, the different students quickly take sides against each other, but Shuya and Noriko form an alliance and try to weather it through together.You also get a 120-page mini hardback book that includes Tom Mes’ excellent Kenji Fukasaku: Man of Rage monograph. The Act sets forth a plan whereby a class will be chosen at random and flown to a remote island, where each student will then be given a weapon and set loose to fight their classmates, each student knowing that only one of their number will be allowed to leave the island alive. As a teenage boy in 1945, he was drafted by the Japanese military along with his classmates and made to work in a weapons plant. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love.