Plot: Forty-two delinquent students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of delinquent students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a new forum of reality television.The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the dheaht*, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all dtie. The movie focus on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mistuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and classmates to survive (IMDB)?
*why I (mis)spelled it this way? Well because the big Internet G does not allow such words....
One more music post today. You can find everything on the Internet, but sometimes you find little treasures which you wouldn't soon find in your local music store around the corner.
One of those small gems is a very cool compilation of psychedelic Japanese rock tracks. Incredible hard to find, but thanks to the wonderful Internet (and with a bit of luck), I am able to offer you something quite unique.
The title of the compilation, Japrocksampler, actually derives from Julian Cope'sbook on the history of Western music's arrival on Japanese shores after World War Two. The book is an exploration of the clash between traditional, conservative Japanese values and the wild rock'n'roll renegades of the 1960s and '70s. It tells the tale of key artists in Japanese post-war culture, from itinerant art-house poets to violent refusenik rock groups with a penchant for plane hijacking, and rounds up the seminal japrock albums.
Anyways, the fitting soundtrack of the book (with thanks to and courtesy of Grown Up All Wrong):
CD I 01 - The Jacks • Marianne (Vacant World, 1968) 02 - Love Live Life + One • Shadows of the Mind (Love Will Make A Better You, 1970) 03 - Masayuki Takayanagi and Kaoru Abe with New Direction • untitled [excerpt from side one] (Kaitaiteki Kokan, 1970) 04 - Flower Travellin' Band • Satori, part II (Satori, 1971) 05 - Speed, Glue & Shinki • Run and Hide (Speed, Glue & Shinki, 1971) 06 - Masahiko Satoh with Soundbreakers • untitled [excerpt from side one] (Amalgamations, 1971) 07 - Blues Creation • Sorrow (Demon & Eleven Children, 1971) 08 - Datetenryu • Harugeshiki (Unto, 1971) 09 - Lost Aaraaff • Hell of Screams (Genya Concert, 1971) 10 - People • Shomyo, part I (Ceremony: Buddha Meet Rock, 1971)
CD II 01 - Taj Mahal Travellers • untitled [excerpt from track 2] (July 15,1972, 1972) 02 - Akira Ishikawa and Count Buffaloes • Pigmy (Uganda, 1972) 03 - J.A. Seazer • Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu (Kokkyou Junreika, 1973) 04 - Acid Seven Group • untitled [track 6] (Oz Days Live, 1973) 05 - Yonin Bayashi • Omatsuri (Isshoku Sokuhatsu, 1974) 06 - Karuna Khyal • untitled [excerpt from side one] (Alomoni 1985, 1974) 07 - Geinoh Yamashirogumi • Osorezan [excerpt] (Osorezan, 1974) 08 - Magical Power Mako • Jump (Jump, 1977) 09 - Les Rallizes Denudes • Enter the Mirror (’77 Live, 1991) 10 - Far East Family Band • Timeless Phase (Tenkujin, 1977)
To download, click CD 1 and/or CD 2. To see/ listen to an example, check the Youtube video below.
Language: English
