JAPANESE IMPORTS
ZEDY-2007

BATTLE ROYALE II: REQUIEM
Masamichi Amano

On September 2002, Kinji Fukasaku held a press conference where he made two major announcements: He was dying of bone cancer, and, refusing to let that hold him back, he was going to direct Battle Royale II.

The soundtrack for BRII was released on July 16, 2003, and contains 21 tracks from the motion picture score as well as the theme song "Mayonaka Shounen Totsugeki Dan." Except for the familiar "Requiem" by Verdi and a Beethoven piano piece that figures in the plot, the BRII score doesn't have a selection of classical music classics like the original had, and relies primarily on a new score by Masamichi Amano. We do hear a couple of Amano's motifs carried over from the original, as well as slightly updated versions of some themes.

Track Listing:
1. The fight for tomorrow
2. The fight for tomorrow part 2
3. Requiem
4. Wild Seven Declaring War
5. The time to attack
6. Shikanotoride 3B
7. The countdown to terror
8. Injured teammates
9. Getting weapons, and the death of Shugo
10. Nanahara Shuya's fight
11. Message
12. Mines
13. The Justice of a Ruler
14. Encountering Tragedies
15. Friends Forever
16. Landing Plan
17. The song of the Warriors
18. Teacher and Student Part 2
19. The glory of the resistance
20. Farewell to the Piano
21. Epilogue
22. Mayonaka shounen totsugeki dan (Stance Punks)