Battle Royale II: Requiem

Battle Royale II: Requiem
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Kana	バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Batoru Rowaiaru Tsū Rekuiemu
Directed by	Kinji Fukasaku[a] Kenta Fukasaku
Screenplay by	Kenta Fukasaku Norio Kida
Based on	Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Produced by	Kimio Kataoka Mitsuru Kawase
Starring	Tatsuya Fujiwara Ai Maeda Shugo Oshinari Ayana Sakai Riki Takeuchi Aki Maeda Haruka Suenaga Natsuki Kato Sonny Chiba Beat Takeshi
Cinematography	Junichi Fujisawa
Edited by	Hirohide Abe
Music by	Masamichi Amano
Production company	Fukasaku-gumi
Distributed by	Toei
Release dates	May 18, 2003 (2003-05-18) (Cannes) July 5, 2003 (2003-07-05) (Japan)
Running time	133 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	$9 million
Box office	$14.9 million[2]

Battle Royale II: Requiem (Japanese: バトル・ロワイアルII 鎮魂歌, Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru Tsū Rekuiemu) is a 2003 Japanese dystopian action film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and Kenta Fukasaku, who co-wrote the screenplay with Norio Kida. It is the sequel to the 2000 film Battle Royale, which in turn was based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami. Unlike the first film, Requiem is an original story. It is set three years after the events of the previous film and follows Shuya Nanahara, who has now become an international terrorist intending to bring down the Japanese totalitarian government. As a result, another class of ninth graders is kidnapped and sent to eliminate Nanahara within a limited time period of 72 hours.

Director Kinji Fukasaku, who helmed the first film, started production but died of prostate cancer on January 12, 2003, after shooting only one scene with Beat Takeshi. His son Kenta Fukasaku, who wrote the screenplay for both films, completed it in his directorial debut and dedicated it to his father.

Battle Royale II: Requiem was theatrically released in Japan in July 2003, by Toei. In stark contrast to its predecessor, it drew negative reviews from critics^[3] and grossed $14.9 million against a budget of $9 million, less than half of what the previous film grossed with double the budget. In 2009, an extended version, entitled Revenge, which runs 20 minutes longer than the theatrical cut, was released on DVD.^[4] It included additional action, improved effects, slow motion shots, new score in several scenes, and a extended storyline.^[5]

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