Battle Royale

[The STE]

The mystery is (somewhat) solved! It arrived in the mail from Netflix today and it's the Korean Special Version (IE: Director's Cut) DVD, complete with extra scenes and shitty subtitles

so either Netflix might start carrying foreign release DVDs (which would pretty much crush all the similar companies that have sprung up recently) or they've made an exception, possibly due to lots of requests

[Thepuppetmaster]

Originally posted by The STE
there is no problem. The point of the thread is that Netflix should NOT have this movie. For them to have this version of this movie, there would have to be in existance a 2 disc SE of Battle Royale that was commercially and legally released in the United States. Such a disc does not exist, and yet Netflix is carrying it. I have no idea how this is possible, and neither does anybody at 2 other message boards I go to, one of which is ABOUT Japanese movies (specifically, ones like Battle Royale)

Finding a copy isn't the problem. If I wanted a copy I'd go to ebay. The "problem" is that what Netflix has should/does not exist

yo dude this movie looks so goddamn awsome hey can i have a link to the japanese movie forum? as you can see by my avatar i love them alot

[The STE]

http://www.mandiapple.com/snowblood/index2.htm

[Thepuppetmaster]

Thanks man now im going to try with all my power to get this movie. Damn it would be so much easiler if i was rich

[The STE]

http://www.netflix.com
http://www.ebay.com
http://www.pokerindustries.com

I could list more links, but I don't know what region the fifth level of Hell is. Try http://www.battleroyalefilm.net

[jay o2 waster]

Originally posted by The STE
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).

I have it
Weird...

[Thepuppetmaster]

This movie looks very interesting. If i havent already mentioned it im going to buy the book tomorrow

[The STE]

I won't say the book is better because it's a book and the movie isn't, so you can't compare the two, but I do like the book better than I like the movie, and the movie is in my top 100. But all the reasons why I like the book are mostly stuff like it gives more backstory and has more detail, and books have more time for that than movies. The biggest difference is the Kiriyama and Kawada characters. Kawada is about the same, but the book version of Kiriyama is SOOOO much better.

[Thepuppetmaster]

well this would make sence. Mainly because some book based movies are shit or close to it such as The queen of the damned. O i feel sorry for Anne Rices work being gutted and sown back together as shit. I think the same of Dreamcatcher. I admit not even as closely bad but the book was much better. Any word on the comparison of A Clockwork Orange the book and movie? Ive seen the movie "Totaly killer" , But i havent had a chance to read the book.

[The STE]

all I know about the book/movie differences with Clockwork Orange is that the endings are a lot different. And a lot of the really great movies were books first