BRII delay

[Christine Marran]

I am curious about the assumption that the Sasebo girl has likely not 
seen BR because I read that she likely had.  Did she explicitly claim 
that she has never seen the film?  Just wondering...

Christine Marran

Aaron Gerow wrote:
> Some of you may have heard about the incident in Sasebo, Japan, in which 
> an eleven-year-old girl purposely slit the throat of one of her friends 
> at school, killing her. The wideshows and magazines have been filled 
> with reports about the incident, becoming another of those "young people 
> are different these days" events. Well, one thing that has emerged is 
> that the eleven-year-old girl, who felt she was being ostracized in her 
> class, began writing net diaries alluding to Battle Royale. Probably she 
> has never seen the films or read the novels, but Toei just announced 
> that because of the incident, it is delaying DVD/video release of an 
> enhanced version of Battle Royale II featuring cut scenes and new CG (it 
> was scheduled to go on sale in September). No announcement on when the 
> DVD will actually be released.
> 
> Aaron Gerow
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> Yale University
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Christine L. Marran
Asst. Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Minnesota