Battle Royale II: Requiem

Three years after the abandoned island, the Wild Seven are formed and openly defy the authorities, led by Makio Mimura and Shuya Nanahara. They strike at symbolic targets, including a deadly assault on American soldiers and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. The act signals a new chapter of resistance and a war against the adults who created the system.

The government enacts the New Century Special Anti-Terrorism Act, launching Battle Royale II to recruit a new generation of enforcers. A new class of youths is coerced into the program, and Kitano Shiori joins the effort to pursue Shuya Nanahara. Shiori transfers to Shikanotoride Junior High School as part of the plan.

Class 3-B is lured onto a field trip that ends with them imprisoned on Battleship Island under armed guard. A single ground rule is issued: to win, they must find and kill Shuya Nanahara within three days. The students confront a brutal test of loyalty as the system tightens its grip.

Makimura Shintaro, known as Boy #15, refuses to participate, even after being shot in the leg. The collars enforce a chilling cause-and-effect: if one student dies, the other tied to that number is killed as well. The moral fog thickens as fear spreads through the class.

Fukuda Kazumi dies early in the process, reducing the class to 40 students. The remaining students are transported by boat toward Battleship Island, where the Wild Seven have already taken refuge. The voyage marks the transition from planning to open confrontation.

The Wild Seven launch their assault on the boat, triggering immediate chaos. Yosuke Miyadai is struck down by a Wild Seven sniper, the first casualty of the new war. A volley of deaths follows as gunfire and detonations ripple through the vessel, with Yuka Mifune’s collar exploding and Asuka Shioda blinded, among others.

Sanae Shioda attempts to escape but is killed by the island's lethal landmines. Shimura Tetsuya of Schwartz Katz pressures Boy #4 Kurosawa Ryo to kill Shuya before he perishes. The minefield frenzy claims more lives as the group struggles to advance.

The second mission unfolds with Ikeda Miki out of range of her collar, a failed window escape, and Shugo Urabe badly wounded. Takuma fires upon the fortress amid the panic, while Haruka Kuze speaks of the holocaust and the dead continue to pile up. The mission ends with the field divided by grief and desperation.

Taguchi Masakatsu loses both legs in a mine trap, and Ryoko Hata follows in the same trap's blast. The sequence triggers a chain reaction that claims Tatsuhiko, Niimi Rena, Maezono Kenji, and Ryoko, among others. The collars' grip tightens as the death toll climbs.

Shuya attempts an EMP to save his friends, but the rescue comes too late for Yuko Natsukawa, who is killed in the blast. The EMP fires at the last moment, sparing Takuma and Shiori and the remaining students, and Battle Royale II is canceled. The Wild Seven remove the collars from eleven surviving students, including Shiori and Takuma.

Two survivors, Takuma Aoi and Shiori Kitano, are taken into the Wild Seven's base. The collars of the remaining devices are removed, and the survivors are urged to help end Battle Royale II for good. Shiori sits at a piano, and a memory of her father surfaces, linking her to the island's violent past.

A flashback reveals the chain of events behind Makio Mimura's earlier acts of violence, including the killing of American soldiers by the Wild Seven in the opening sequence. Shuya's voice returns in a living memory as Shiori's piano playing becomes a conduit for confronting the past. The scene underscores the moral ambiguity of vengeance and survival.

On Christmas Day, Shuya uploads a video message announcing their goal of living free, prompting a violent response from the United States. Under pressure, the Japanese prime minister orders renewed assaults with no survivors allowed, threatening to annihilate everyone on the island if the operation fails. The island's fate hangs in the balance as the world watches.

The base is blasted by missiles and US bombardment seals the island's fate, with Kuze dying and Takuma clinging to life as Shuya's group struggles to escape via a mined shaft toward the mainland. The battle ends with heavy losses on both sides and the island reduced to ash. The New Century Special Anti-Terrorism Act's ultimate outcomes remain unknown for the survivors.

A three-month-later coda shifts the scene to Afghanistan, where Nao's lullabies echo the bond between adult and child. Shuya, Takuma, and the other survivors regroup with Noriko Nakagawa and a new sense of kinship. The montage ends with a fragile hope that friendship can outlast cycles of violence.