Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka (2003)

Directors:

Kenta Fukasaku
Kinji Fukasaku

Writers:

Kenta Fukasaku (writer)
Norio Kida (writer)

Release Date:

5 July 2003 (Japan)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

This time it's war.

Plot:

Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.

Plot Keywords:

Terrorist | Island | Self Sacrifice | Dystopia | Returning Character Killed Off

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara	...	Shuya Nanahara
Ai Maeda	...	Shiori Kitano (Transfer Student)
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 Souda
Yuki Ito	...	Ryo Kurosawa
Natsuki Kato	...	Saki Sakurai
Aki Maeda	...	Noriko Nakagawa
Riki Takeuchi	...	Riki Takeuchi (Sensei)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Aja	...	Kazumi Fukuda
Munetaka Aoki	...	Jun Nanami
Riasu Arama	...	Rena Niimi
Sonny Chiba	...	Makio Mimura (Shinji's revolutionary uncle)
Seiichi Ebina	...	Tatsuro Morishima
Ryoji Fujihira	...	Masami Shibaki
Maki Hamada	...	Chizuru
Ayumi Hanada	...	Ryoko Hata
Kenji Harada	...	Naoki Jo
Hitomi Hasebe	...	Asuka Motomura
Takaaki Ikeyama	...	Yasuaki Hosaka
Asuka Ishii	...	Maho Nosaka
Hiroaki Ito	...	Soldier
Ai Iwamura	...	Mai (Smiling Winner from BR1)
Kotaru Kamijou	...	Kenji Maezono
Minami Kanazawa	...	Yuko Natsukawa
Ryo Katsuji	...	Haruya Sakurai
Asami Katsura	...	Risa Shindo
Mika Kikuchi	...	Ayane Yagi
Takeshi Kitano	...	Kitano (as Beat Takeshi)
Musashi Kubota	...	Wataru Mukai
Miku Kuga	...	Kengo Yonai
Maika Matsumoto	...	Shiho Matsuki
Michiho Matsumoto	...	Sanae Shioda
Yoshiko Mita	...	Takuma's mother
Chisato Miyao	...	Hibiki Yano
Akane Mizuno	...	Sayaka
Yuuko Morimoto	...	Kana Yûki
Aiko Moriuchi	...	Miki Ikeda
Mitsuru Murata	...	Soji Kazama
Ami Nakagawa	...	Honami Totsuka
Kayo Nayuki	...	Eri Yoshiyama
Yûya Nishikawa	...	Nishi
Takashi Nishina
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
Masahiko Tsugawa	...	The Prime Minister
Haruka Umeda	...	Aya
Toshihiro Wada	...	Satoshi Imakire (as Toshihiro Wada)
Kouta Yamada	...	Tetsuya Shimura
Kazuki Yamamoto	...	Yosuke Miyadai
Michiko Yamamura	...	Reporter
Nana Yanagisawa	...	Mayu Hasuda
Takahiko Yanagisawa	...	Shiro
Kazutoshi Yokoyama	...	ATAT soldier
Yasutake Yuboku	...	Kiyoshi Minamoto
Takashi Yukawa	...	'Wild Seven' Member
Yuuma	...	Yuuma

Also Known As:

Batoru rowaiaru II: Rekuiemu (Japan) (alternative title)
Battle Royale 2: Revenge (UK) (DVD title)
Battle Royale II (USA)
Battle Royale II: Requiem (literal English title)

Runtime:

Japan:134 min | Japan:155 min (director's cut)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Hong Kong:III | Australia:R | Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) | Japan:R-15 | New Zealand:R18 | South Korea:15 | UK:18 | Finland:K-18 | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Nishisinoki-gun, Nagasaki, Japan

Company:

Fukasaku-gumi

Trivia:

"Jacta Alea Est", Wild Seven's slogan, is Latin for "The Dice is Cast".

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Shuya impales a commando with a pipe, the strap holding the pipe in place is visible, when he turns towards the camera

Quotes:

Takuma Aoi: Shut up!

Movie Connections:

References Apocalypse Now (1979)

Nutty, over the top and quite entertaining

This does build up well from the first film, even if it borrows heavily from Saving Private Ryan to start with. The initial set of unlucky volunteers are decimated in their first mission in the new game, leaving the old heroes, who are now terrorists, with a problem.

The whole thing is overblown, and could have done with tighter editing. As usual, there are some interesting characters, strange humour and stuff that just doesn't work.

There is a little too much sentimentality and not enough Beat Takashi.