Battle Royale: Director's Cut - 4K Blu-Ray [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray]

One of the most controversial films in history, now available for the first time ever in America! In 2000, director Kinji Fukasaku unleashed BATTLE ROYALE, his violently poetic epic about an innocent group of Junior High students forced by the government to hunt and kill their classmates for sport. It was nominated for 10 Japanese Academy Awards, launched a global phenomenon, and banned from screens by frightened civic groups and distributors across America. Three years later, the equally disturbing sequel featuring a new class, new rules, and a brutal terrorist plot by the first films young survivors triggered it's own tragic firestorm around the world. Now for the first time ever, you can see it all Experience the entire BATTLE ROYALE saga on 4 discs including more than 3 hours of definitive Special Features that forever blasts open one of the most potent, shocking and savagely influential sagas in motion picture history. 4 Discs - More Than 3 Hours of Special Features.

Lord of the Flies meets Asian action cinema in director Kinji Fukasaku's violent and controversial thriller. In a strife-torn future Japan, 42 ninth-grade students are abducted by the government and taken to a remote island. There, under the new InchBattle RoyaleInch law, the teens are fitted with explosive collars, armed, and forced to fight each other to the death, with the last one alive allowed to return home. Aki Maeda, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Chiaki Kuriyama, and Takeshi Kitano star. 122 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks Japanese, English; Subtitles English. In Japanese with English subtitles/Dubbed in English. Two-disc set. Region Free

In this definitive spaghetti western, Franco Nero (Keoma, The Fifth Cord) gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the Mexico-US border, ominously dragging a coffin behind him. After saving imperilled prostitute Maria (Loredana Nusciak), Django becomes embroiled in a brutal feud between a racist gang and a band of Mexican revolutionaries... With Django, director Sergio Corbucci (The Great Silence) upped the ante for sadism and sensationalism in westerns, depicting machine-gun massacres, mud-fighting prostitutes and savage mutilations. A huge hit with international audiences, Django's brand of bleak nihilism would be repeatedly emulated in a raft of unofficial sequels. The film is presented here in an exclusive new restoration with a wealth of extras.