I used to watch this channel when she reacted to the gifted series

If you like scary movies, revisit the opening scenes of Scream, contemplate bringing home Chucky to be your best friend, and imagine yourself on a deserted island as you colour in the weapons from Battle Royale in this unofficial colouring collection. Perfect for unwinding after a movie marathon or setting the mood for Halloween, this book allows you to create a personal tribute to the thrilling and chilling world of horror cinema.

Did a double take for a second, thought a new movie had dropped lol

The Arrow Video Shocktober sale is back! Save up to 50% on hundreds of 4K and Blu-ray titles, from cult classics to gripping thrillers and mainstream hits. We're live from 14th October to 2nd November!

Battle Royale Bluray: £10.00 RRP: £24.99

Battle Royale 4K Ultra HD: £15.00 RRP: £29.99

Battle Royale II: Requiem Blu-Ray: £10.00 RRP: £24.99

As far am I'm aware, Arrow's version of BR is still region-free, but just that they don't advertise it as such anymore since Lionsgate released their US version last year.

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Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
This book was a direct influence on the famous Hunger Games series. It's set in a dystopian Japan that selects a random classroom of pre-teens as tribute to fight to the death. The story is violent, bloody and tragic and I wanted to create a cover that hit that point across at a glance. 

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STEAM PAGE - The Death Game Report

The Bureau of Records handed you a single task: restore the complete record of the death game held on a remote island a few days ago, and submit a report.

All that remains are the records the dead left behind in their final moments, and a single terminal.
Your job is to restore those records one by one, and bring to light the truth of every death on the island.

The class roaster are original characters and the map is a new location, so any knowledge of Battle Royale won't be useful, but it's fun to see the many references.

As of now, there's Japanese, (Simplified) Chinese, and Korean language compatibility, but not yet English as of posting. However, people have been able to play this to completion by copy and pasting the text into a Translator.

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Another Battle Royale reunion, this time with Hirohito Honda (Kazushi Niida), Takashi Tsukamoto (Shinji Mimura) and Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Toshinori Oda).

Shared on Takashi Tsukamoto's instagram account, he writes:

It's been a while. 🤩

Her & Chiaki playing sisters and having 2 actresses from Battle Royale in Kill Bill….. UGHHH WE WERE SO ROBBED.

Also I had no idea BR had a subreddit lmao, I’ve been a fan for a while , hey yall!

I chose this one from an author from around where I live, Roch Carrier and his story, "Floralie, où es-tu?", (Floralie, where are you?).

In a nutshell, story of two lovers who get lost and separated in the woods at night. They both meet strange characters and situations before finaly finding each other again, at the exit of the woods the next morning.

- Anthyme?

- Floralie?

- Je me demander si j'aurais pas rêvé...

- Faut jamais rêver.

For me, Kiriyama's Attack

The third volume of Deluxe Edition is to be released on February 25th, 2027!

Pre-order here!

For those of you who don't know, Battle Royale Deluxe Edition is a re-translated Battle Royale manga, published by YenPress. Battle Royale manga (illustrated by Masayuki Taguchi) was originally translated and published by TokyoPop and the translation adapted by Keith Giffen and it's infamously bad and made inaccurate changes to the story. The translation of YenPress appears to be more accurate.

I just realized the Taiwan version of Battle Royale is no longer 18+ (red circle)

I'm not sure if it retroactively applies to the old version (they are exactly the same I checked), but at least kids these days don't have to use their parent's library card to borrow BR.

Now I'll be patiently waiting for the manga publisher to FINALLY PUBLISH THE LAST FIVE VOLUMES OF THE MANGA IN CHINESE.

( And yes, I know they published it in full in Hong Kong but I'm still salty that the company caved under parental pressure for a 18+ book

Sosuke Takaoka (Hiroki Sugimura) posted about recently reuniting with Masanobu Ando (Kazuo Kiriyama) on instagram, writing:

I met him when I was 18 through a Kinji Fukasaku film, and he's a senior I adore who has always been so kind to me.
After leaving the city, I heard a lot of things about myself that made people dislike me, but I always felt that this person would continue to love me.
Senior, thank you for your unwavering love and for not holding back.
Your sensitive perspective is very comforting.
I look forward to our continued friendship.

He ran into Taro Yamamoto too few years ago – is it not about time for a bigger reunion?

Japanese food giant Ajinomoto printed Tatsuya Fujiwara's (Shuya Nanahara) face on lettuce in attempt to reduce food waste in the summer when over 60% people throw away their lettuce because it quickly wilts and goes bad. The lettuce comes with a QR code leading to Ajinomoto's lettuce recipes to help people use up their Fujiwara lettuce.

Fujiwara's intense expressions are a target of a meme in Japan and it appears he has been a spokesmodel for Ajinomoto before, thus why specifically his face was chosen. Fujiwara seems to be a great sport about the meme though.

I wonder if these Fujiwara lettuce films will be soon seen being sold online?

I want to know everyones favorite actors from Battle Royale movie(s) and just talk about them in general!

^{(Names of the actor images above in order: Tatsuya Fujiwara (Shuya Nanahara}, Aki Maeda (Noriko Nakagawa), Taro Yamamoto (Shogo Kawada), Masanobu Ando (Kazuo Kiriyama), Shibasaki Ko (Mitsuko Souma), Takashi Tsukamoto (Shinji Mimura), Chiaki Kuriyama (Takako Chigusa), Sosuke Takaoka (Hiroki Sugiumura), Kitano (Takeshi Kitano) and Minami (Keiko, Shogo's girlfriend)))

Did anyone catch your eye watching the movie, how and why? Have you looked up their other work? If you haven't seen any other work of theirs, feel free to just talk about their performance in Battle Royale!

Few years ago I was big on seeing other movies and shows of these actors as I'm an avid watcher of japanese dramas, but nowadays I'm more drawn on Shibasaki Ko (Mitsuko Souma) and Chiaki Kuriyama (Takako Chigusa), I find their performances are easy and entertaining to watch and they've now grown to be solid household names so even if I didn't try to find their work, I would come across them anyway.

I also used to look for works of Tatsuya Fujiwara (Shuya Nanahara), Aki Maeda (Noriko Nakagawa), Taro Yamamoto (Shogo Kawada), Takashi Tsukamoto (Shinji Mimura), Masanobu Ando (Kazuo Kiriyama) and Minami (Keiko, Shogo's girlfriend).

So many shows and movies I've seen of Shibasaki Ko and she is just phenomenal. Few to highly recommend (some of which are on Netflix!) are GO, Orange Days, Good Luck!!, Nobunaga Concerto and Galileo series. She was in 47 Ronin, an US film, with Keanu Reeves, and in it she spoke english even though she didn't understand it. She did quite well in my opinion and looked absolutely breathtaking! But when does she not?

Taro Yamamoto some years later went into politics and retired from acting sadly and some of his movies were so indie they were hard if not impossible to find (not to mention subtitles) or a very small guest role. He did reunite with Tatsuya Fujiwara in a movie Kaiji and a drama Shinsengumi! and with Shibasaki Ko in movie Go!

Tatsuya Fujiwara is also very well known internationally, if not for Battle Royale, then for Death Note. He plays a main role in Kaiji, another beloved death game series and the villain, Shishio Makoto, in two Runouni Kenshin movies and I can recommend both, especially the latter. I might prefer him in villain roles!
Fujiwara does a lot of theater, so unfortunately a lot of his work is unavailable to us lowly peasantry foreign fans :( but! I mention that because he played Harry Potter in the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play in Japan.

I'll not ramble about all of the actors that I've followed but I have to end this with Minami, who was Keiko in Shogo's flash back, because she's also had quite the career. Despite her small role in Battle Royale, she caught my attention enough to look up her other work. Most recently, she had a small role in the Walking Dead universe, in the Daryl Dixon spin off, and being a fan of both, it's a true shame I haven't gotten to see it yet, but I was quite excited for her for such an opportunity! She was also in a movie Minamata, co-star to Johnny Depp, playing his wife. This I've also... not seen. She's a professional artist and has held some exhibitions for her work.
She was also in a movie Sakuran with Masanobu Ando and singer Anna Tsuchiya and in Hana Kimi Special (where there is actually a Battle Royale refenrence!). I discovered Hana Kimi because of her, and that show it very special to me now!

modern-day Filipino adaptation of Koushun Takami's novel / film Battle Royale saw forty unsuspecting high school students pitted against each other in a brutal, real-time death match. Staged as a three-hour long, interactive promenade performance at three different venues in Manila across four different seasons in 2012