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...most anticipated Japanese movie. Battle Royale II opens in Japan this month amid a deafening buzz of hype and expectation, and with one question looming over the rest: will the sequel generate as much outrage and controversy as its predecessor? "I hope so," says the film's director, Kenta Fukasaku. "The more strongly people react, the better...
...this declaration implies, Battle Royale II is a film with a heavy hand and a heavier heart. "We never set out to make Harry Potter," says director Fukasaku. "The point is to make people think about big issues. I want the audience to try and see the world from a terrorist's point of view." Inciting contemplation is an ambitious?some would say foolhardy?agenda for a summer blockbuster, but to Fukasaku it's the only way to stand out from the season's foreign competition. "We're up against the new Matrix and Terminator 3," he says. "Japanese movies...
...They have death to blame. The first Battle Royale was the work of Kinji Fukasaku, a legendary director of yakuza films known for his deftness at blending violence and black humor. When he died of cancer at the age of 72, having completed only one day of shooting on the sequel, his 30-year-old son Kenta?author of both films' screenplays but lacking in directorial experience?took over his father's job. Kenta's humble, self-effacing approach charmed some and annoyed others. Actor Takeshi Kitano, who played the original group's teacher in the first movie and reprises...
...AILING. KINJI FUKASAKU, 72, Japanese director whose 2000 hit Battle Royale, about a group of schoolchildren forced to fight each other to the death on a deserted island, turned heads with its macabre mix of nihilism and whimsy; with cancer; in Tokyo. Fukasaku, who co-directed the 1970 Pearl Harbor classic Tora! Tora! Tora!, plans to begin filming Battle Royale 2 in defiance of his doctor's orders...
Kitano took over direction of Violent Cop after Fukasaku dropped out. He didn't plan the film or write it. But it's all Kitano in its charting of an arid landscape with no easy signposts. No sentimentality here?indeed, no evident feeling. He seeks no sympathy for Asuma. The man needn't be attractive, only compelling. If you want to idolize or iconize him, that's your business...