Battle Royale II-Requiem opened last weekend in Japan to huge ticket sales, according to Screen Daily.  BR2 topped the original Battle Royale's opening by over 64%, setting a record for its distributor, Toei.  It will be a strong contender for the largest domestic hit of the year in Japan, according to Toei. 

The film picks up where the controversial original leaves off, pitting high school students on a deserted island against a rebel group led by a survivor of a previous Battle Royale in a near future Japan.  In the original, the government fights school violence by taking a randomly chosen group of high school students and placing them on a deserted island to fight it out to the death. The sequel was completed by the son of director Kinji Fukusaku after his death.