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Anyone seen these movies? Their in Japanise but have subtitles and are the greatest movies ever in my opion. You can wach them on www.youtube.com i suggest you wach them.
Battle Royale I:The novel and manga Battle Royale takes place in an alternate timeline, according to the book's prologue, where Japan is a police state, known as the Republic of Greater East Asia. Once a year, randomly selected classes of middle-school students are forced to take arms against one another until only one student in each class remains. The program was created, supposedly, as a form of military research, though the outcome of each battle is publicized on local television. The first battle in the series took place in 1947, and the novel follows a battle that takes place in May 1997. Late in the book, character Shogo Kawada discovers that the program is not an experiment at all, but a means of terrorizing the population. After seeing such atrocities, the people will become paranoid and divided, preventing an organized rebellion.
Under the guise of a 'study trip', the students are corralled onto a bus and gassed, only to awaken on an evacuated island or isolated area with metal collars around their necks. After being briefed about their role in the program, the students are issued bags that carry bread, water, a map, a compass, a flashlight, a watch and a weapon or a tool, and sent out one by one, with two minutes separating each departure. While most of the students receive guns and knives, some students acquire useless items like boomerangs, some common dartboard darts, or a fork. In some cases, instead of a weapon, the student receives a tool; Hiroki Sugimura finds a radar that tracks nearby students, and Toshinori Oda receives a bulletproof vest.
To make sure the students obey the rules and kill each other, the metal collars around their necks track their positions, and will explode if they linger in a 'Forbidden Zone' or attempt to remove the collars. The Forbidden Zones are randomly chosen areas of the map that increase in number from hour to hour, re-sculpting and shrinking the battlefield and forcing the students to move around. The collars secretly transmit sound back to the organizers of the game, allowing them to hear the students' conversations, root out escape plans, and log their activities.
The students are also given a time limit. If twenty-four hours pass without someone killing someone, then all of the collars will be detonated simultaneously and there will be no winner (in the movie, the students have 3 days or the collars will go off). It is later mentioned by Shogo Kawada that only 0.5% of Programs end in this fashion.
In the end, only four students remain: Shuya Nanahara, Noriko Nakagawa, Shogo Kawada, and antagonist Kazuo Kiriyama. There is a car chase and shootout between the three main characters and Kazuo. They win, but two of their group must die before the game can end. Several plot twists ensue before the book ends with two of the three alive and on the run.
Battle Royale II:
In the sequel, survivors of previous Battle Royales, led by Shuya Nanahara (the hero of the first film), have formed a terrorist group called "Wild Seven".
As in the first film, a class of teenagers is kidnapped by the Japanese government. Instead of stereotypically studious Japanese students, these ninth graders are “a ragtag collection of delinquents and losers from all over Japan,” including tough-guy rugby players, punks with dyed hair, and a bunch of cute girls distinguishable only by their hairstyles. More importantly, many are orphans whose parents or family died in bombings by Wild Seven. After their school bus is diverted to an army base, the students are herded into a cage, surrounded by armed guards, and confronted by their schoolteacher, Riki Takeuchi, who lays down the ground rules of the new Battle Royale game. Wild Seven is hiding out on a deserted island, and instead of being forced to kill each other, as in the old Battle Royale, the students are ordered to attack the terrorist group’s hideout en masse and kill the leader, Shuya Nanahara, within 72 hours. Most of the kids are not interested in being forced to avenge their families, but are coerced to fight through exploding metal collars, which their captors can detonate by remote control. The students are also put into 'pairs'; if one student dies, then his or her 'pair' will also die because of the metal collars set to a certain frequency.
Once again, Shuya — accompanied by survivors of previous "Programs" — must fight to survive.
Politics of number 2:Battle Royale II seems to express a reaction to the post-9/11 state of the world. The film's opening sequence re-enacts 9/11, Tokyo style. The twin towers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices, Tokyo’s tallest buildings, are brought crashing down by Wild Seven's bombs, along with the rest of Shinjuku’s many skyscrapers.
When the kidnapped children are told the rules of the new Battle Royale game by their teacher, Riki, he points out a white line on the floor, and says, "There are only two sides in life, the winners and the losers... This is the line that divides good from evil. It’s black or white. There’s nothing in between." Riki scrawls the names of various countries on a chalkboard: Somalia, Bosnia, Japan, and so on. Riki asks his frightened and bewildered students what all the countries have in common. The answer, Riki spits out in anger, is "In the past sixty years, America has bombed every one of them. Some 8 million dead among 22 nations!" Riki states, "You are either with us or against us," a message which seems to echo America's stance after 9/11.
Once the Battle Royale begins, the classmates' experience mirror two important chapters in American history, D-Day (when the classmates storm the shores of Wild Seven's Island) and the Vietnam War (when the kids regroup and head into the thick jungle of the Island’s interior to face tripwires and booby traps).
The film suggests (but never explicitly states) that the United States is behind the Battle Royales, despite the original book actually giving praise to the United States by saying it could be the country to end the Fascist government in Japan.
At the end of the film, the last remaining members of the Wild Seven seek refuge in Afghanistan, which was the first target of the War on Terrorism. Without coincidence, Shuya wears the same white robe as Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (but wields an AK-47 instead of bin Laden's AKS-74U).
One way to interpret the many parallels to 9/11 and scenes from American history is that the filmmakers wanted Japanese audiences to consider American history, America’s current role in the world, and Japan's role as America's ally.
Trivia
Much of the cast was made up of former, current (and future) Super Sentai and Kamen Rider alumni.
The assault rifles used by the Battle Royale students are FAMAS "Type 03" rifles; some have attached M303 grenade launchers.
"Iacta Alea Est", Wild Seven's slogan, means "The Die is Cast" in Latin.
Quentin Tarantino was offered a role but could not do it because of scheduling. He said, "They wanted me to play the President of the United States."
In the volume 1 of the manga Battle Royale, Shogo Kawada is smoking a cigarette of a brand called WILD SEVEN. A possible reference to the second film, but highly unlikely. WILD SEVEN is the nickname of Shuya Nanahara and the cigarette brand Kawada smokes in the novel, which precedes both films. (Possible correction: Could in fact be a misspelling or simply be a play on MILD SEVEN, a real brand of cigarettes in Japan. See article Wild Seven.)
In one scene, Shuya is seen with a photo of his entire class, an orange headband and a knife. They are all references to the previous film, with the headband once belonging to Shogo Kawada and the knife belonging to Noriko Nakagawa / Yoshitoki Kuninobu.
Battle Royale I:The novel and manga Battle Royale takes place in an alternate timeline, according to the book's prologue, where Japan is a police state, known as the Republic of Greater East Asia. Once a year, randomly selected classes of middle-school students are forced to take arms against one another until only one student in each class remains. The program was created, supposedly, as a form of military research, though the outcome of each battle is publicized on local television. The first battle in the series took place in 1947, and the novel follows a battle that takes place in May 1997. Late in the book, character Shogo Kawada discovers that the program is not an experiment at all, but a means of terrorizing the population. After seeing such atrocities, the people will become paranoid and divided, preventing an organized rebellion.
Under the guise of a 'study trip', the students are corralled onto a bus and gassed, only to awaken on an evacuated island or isolated area with metal collars around their necks. After being briefed about their role in the program, the students are issued bags that carry bread, water, a map, a compass, a flashlight, a watch and a weapon or a tool, and sent out one by one, with two minutes separating each departure. While most of the students receive guns and knives, some students acquire useless items like boomerangs, some common dartboard darts, or a fork. In some cases, instead of a weapon, the student receives a tool; Hiroki Sugimura finds a radar that tracks nearby students, and Toshinori Oda receives a bulletproof vest.
To make sure the students obey the rules and kill each other, the metal collars around their necks track their positions, and will explode if they linger in a 'Forbidden Zone' or attempt to remove the collars. The Forbidden Zones are randomly chosen areas of the map that increase in number from hour to hour, re-sculpting and shrinking the battlefield and forcing the students to move around. The collars secretly transmit sound back to the organizers of the game, allowing them to hear the students' conversations, root out escape plans, and log their activities.
The students are also given a time limit. If twenty-four hours pass without someone killing someone, then all of the collars will be detonated simultaneously and there will be no winner (in the movie, the students have 3 days or the collars will go off). It is later mentioned by Shogo Kawada that only 0.5% of Programs end in this fashion.
In the end, only four students remain: Shuya Nanahara, Noriko Nakagawa, Shogo Kawada, and antagonist Kazuo Kiriyama. There is a car chase and shootout between the three main characters and Kazuo. They win, but two of their group must die before the game can end. Several plot twists ensue before the book ends with two of the three alive and on the run.
Battle Royale II:
In the sequel, survivors of previous Battle Royales, led by Shuya Nanahara (the hero of the first film), have formed a terrorist group called "Wild Seven".
As in the first film, a class of teenagers is kidnapped by the Japanese government. Instead of stereotypically studious Japanese students, these ninth graders are “a ragtag collection of delinquents and losers from all over Japan,” including tough-guy rugby players, punks with dyed hair, and a bunch of cute girls distinguishable only by their hairstyles. More importantly, many are orphans whose parents or family died in bombings by Wild Seven. After their school bus is diverted to an army base, the students are herded into a cage, surrounded by armed guards, and confronted by their schoolteacher, Riki Takeuchi, who lays down the ground rules of the new Battle Royale game. Wild Seven is hiding out on a deserted island, and instead of being forced to kill each other, as in the old Battle Royale, the students are ordered to attack the terrorist group’s hideout en masse and kill the leader, Shuya Nanahara, within 72 hours. Most of the kids are not interested in being forced to avenge their families, but are coerced to fight through exploding metal collars, which their captors can detonate by remote control. The students are also put into 'pairs'; if one student dies, then his or her 'pair' will also die because of the metal collars set to a certain frequency.
Once again, Shuya — accompanied by survivors of previous "Programs" — must fight to survive.
Politics of number 2:Battle Royale II seems to express a reaction to the post-9/11 state of the world. The film's opening sequence re-enacts 9/11, Tokyo style. The twin towers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices, Tokyo’s tallest buildings, are brought crashing down by Wild Seven's bombs, along with the rest of Shinjuku’s many skyscrapers.
When the kidnapped children are told the rules of the new Battle Royale game by their teacher, Riki, he points out a white line on the floor, and says, "There are only two sides in life, the winners and the losers... This is the line that divides good from evil. It’s black or white. There’s nothing in between." Riki scrawls the names of various countries on a chalkboard: Somalia, Bosnia, Japan, and so on. Riki asks his frightened and bewildered students what all the countries have in common. The answer, Riki spits out in anger, is "In the past sixty years, America has bombed every one of them. Some 8 million dead among 22 nations!" Riki states, "You are either with us or against us," a message which seems to echo America's stance after 9/11.
Once the Battle Royale begins, the classmates' experience mirror two important chapters in American history, D-Day (when the classmates storm the shores of Wild Seven's Island) and the Vietnam War (when the kids regroup and head into the thick jungle of the Island’s interior to face tripwires and booby traps).
The film suggests (but never explicitly states) that the United States is behind the Battle Royales, despite the original book actually giving praise to the United States by saying it could be the country to end the Fascist government in Japan.
At the end of the film, the last remaining members of the Wild Seven seek refuge in Afghanistan, which was the first target of the War on Terrorism. Without coincidence, Shuya wears the same white robe as Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (but wields an AK-47 instead of bin Laden's AKS-74U).
One way to interpret the many parallels to 9/11 and scenes from American history is that the filmmakers wanted Japanese audiences to consider American history, America’s current role in the world, and Japan's role as America's ally.
Trivia
Much of the cast was made up of former, current (and future) Super Sentai and Kamen Rider alumni.
The assault rifles used by the Battle Royale students are FAMAS "Type 03" rifles; some have attached M303 grenade launchers.
"Iacta Alea Est", Wild Seven's slogan, means "The Die is Cast" in Latin.
Quentin Tarantino was offered a role but could not do it because of scheduling. He said, "They wanted me to play the President of the United States."
In the volume 1 of the manga Battle Royale, Shogo Kawada is smoking a cigarette of a brand called WILD SEVEN. A possible reference to the second film, but highly unlikely. WILD SEVEN is the nickname of Shuya Nanahara and the cigarette brand Kawada smokes in the novel, which precedes both films. (Possible correction: Could in fact be a misspelling or simply be a play on MILD SEVEN, a real brand of cigarettes in Japan. See article Wild Seven.)
In one scene, Shuya is seen with a photo of his entire class, an orange headband and a knife. They are all references to the previous film, with the headband once belonging to Shogo Kawada and the knife belonging to Noriko Nakagawa / Yoshitoki Kuninobu.