Completed - JAPANESE - Thriller, Action/Adventure - 133 minutes
A three years after the legacy of Battle Royale, the world is now an Age of Terrorism. Shuya Nakahara, who survived in the last BR Act, is now leading an anti-state terrorist groups which causes the destruction of the Capitol. To deal with it, a new Anti-Terrorism Act, or BRII takes effect.
Year of production : 2003 Director(s) : Kinji FUKASAKU Writer(s) : Koshun TAKAMI, Kenta FUKASAKU, Norio KIDA Cast : Tatsuya FUJIWARA, Ai MAEDA, Shugo OSHINARI, Beat Takeshi KITANO, Sonny CHIBA, Riki TAKEUCHI Producer(s) : Kenta FUKASAKU
Three years after Battle Royale’s survivors, Nanahara Shuya and Nakagawa Noriko, escaped from the island, the world has descended into an Age of Terrorism. A fugitive from international justice, Nanahara leads the Wild Seven, an anti-BR, anti-state group that has declared war against adults who force teenagers to murder each other under the BR Act. Nanahara stands accused of engineering the destruction of the Capitol. In the name of justice, adults have now passed the Millennium Anti-Terrorism Act, or BRII.A year after the destruction of the Capitol… 42 9th graders from Shikanotoride Junior High School, are on their way to a ski vacation. The motley bunch of juvenile delinquents and truants is abducted by the military, trapped inside a vast tent and forced to put on military uniforms and lethal electronic necklaces. RIKI, the teenagers’ former teacher, informs them that their class has been selected for BRII. He lays out the rules with a challenge that goads students to take sides in the “war on terrorism”: “If in the next three days you succeed in flushing out and murdering the terrorist, Nanahara, you win. If you fail, you all die.” One student who refuses to participate is murdered on the spot. Based on the new, harsher rules, a second student’s electronic necklace is activated, killing her instantly… There are only 40 left to go. . . .The remaining students ship out for the front lines of the “war against terror.”
Country(ies) : JAPAN