Battle Royale: The Complete CollectionOne 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

inserting himself in the stud role when he catches them having sex

With it's lightness and melancholy

A number of famous local musicians take part in this recording

The first gets you in the groove

Mahler composed a heartbreaking Adagio as it's Finale

He is backed by pianist Michael Kanan

and Jack Angel

And while both are mature and refined masterworks

with notes from Lee Hildebrand

In this way

and so will be included in the forthcoming 1948 collection

it includes performances alongside musicians like Max Roach