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http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/keyword.../qx/titles.htm

Re: Battle Royale
 

cool film

Battle Royale is a little overrated, due in no small part to the film being an introduction to many to Far-Eastern shock cinema.

That no such wild rides involving schoolkids had been seen in the Western mainstream up until this have made the film a rather undeserved cult classic.

The plot is full of holes, the violence quite boring, and once the effect of murderous schoolgirls quickly wears off there's not much left except for a drippy romance and a bland and disappointing ending.

It all could have been so much better, and Kinji Fukusaku (RIP) has made much better movies in Street Mobster and Graveyard of Honor.

I got mine on ebay ..

and i have to admit .. it didnt exactly stop me in my shoes either ...

I thought it was alright...cool premise...you have to wait awhile for all the other school children to die...:o

Battle Royale DVD? WTF?!
 

http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?...vieid=70004548

This is a weird situation. Battle Royale has NOT been released in the US. The people who own the rights don't want to liscense it for a US release. But Netflix has it. Netflix, to my knowledge, doesn't do foreign DVDs, and they certainly don't deal with bootlegs. And to double check that it hasn't been released, I checked Amazon.com, Buy.com, Video ETA, DVD Aficionado, and IMDB. Nothing. Netflix should not have this movie. But they do. And it's not all of a sudden, either. It has 6 reviews and over 500 ratings, and is on Very Long Wait (but NOT Very Long Wait: Out of Print).


Weird...

that is werid

but netflix has been known to get movies and have thme for rent even before they come out on sell for the public

Weird...agreed.
But, doesn't really matter does it?
In my exp in the past, with Japanese/asian films where I've got to see both the US and Jap/asian versions, the version of the dvd from the country out of which it was released, usually has better extras, AND better trailers...I usually get the those versions unless there's no english audio and/or subtitles.
You'll find that unless it's a dodgy, cheap third party released dvd, that you'll get more out of the "original" dvd anyways...

Bit of a different situation here, though. Amazon, Video ETA, and DVD Aficionado should have information on it before it's released. There would have DEFINATELY been news that this one would be released in the states finally

This is a 2 disc SE. And it's Unrated, which means it hasn't been censored all to hell.