.: Packaging :.

Completely contrasting to the previous release, the cover is has a red/white/black colour scheme with a prodominance of white. The front cover is basically the Special Version theatrical poster, but with a DVD logo placed in the bottom left corner. A reflective silver "BR" logo is also a nice little touch. The back cover seems pretty chaotic: text everywhere with random publicity shots scattered about. The spine (not pictured) has Battle Royale in katakana written vertically with the kanji for "Special Version" placed under.

.: Disc Art :.

Minimalist but quite effective. The disc shows one single picture, tinted in red: Kitano smiling after killing Fujiyoushi. The logo is written on the disc in both Japanese and English.

.: Menus :.
Quite possibly some of the nicest menus I've seen. I'm not the greatest fan of animated menus. Before they seemed quite cool and different, but lately everyone is doing overly elaborate and frustrating animations. Following a fake start to the film in which your dvd gets hacked by The Third Man, your are brought to the Main Menu. Like the previous release, Toei have stuck with the formula: Main Menu = Subtle animation + Music. Every other menu = Static + Music. And it works perfectly fine. Every menu has music from the movie playing along. Each page of the Chapters Select menus have music appropriate to what scenes are selectable (eg. "Mimura's Detemination" plays on the same page where the scene is selectable). The Special Features section is referred to as BR Memorial and very cleverly, all the supplemental material is placed in chronological order.

.: BR: SPECIAL VERSION :.
- Toei Video (Japan)
- Released: 21 May '02
- Region 2
- NTSC
- 122 mins
- ¥ 5,200

.: AUDIO :.
- Japanese Dolby 5.1
- Japanese Dolby 2.0

.: VIDEO :.
- Aspect: 1.85:1 (16x9 Enhanced)
- Dual Layer [change: 1:18:53]

.: SPECIAL FEATURES :.
- Battle Royale: Prologue
- Audition & Rehersal Footage
- Behind the Scenes Footage
- Basketball Behind the Scenes
- Video No Oneesan: Birthday Version
- Memorial Photo Album
- Composite Shots Featurette
- Recording the score at Warsaw ver.2
- 13th Annual Tokyo Film Festival Stage Greetings
- About the Battle with Politicians
- Art Gallery
- TV Spots
- WOWOW TV Spot (Tarantino Version)
- Spot for VHS/DVD Release
- Spot for Featurette VHS
- Easter Eggs!