Question: Battle Royale II: Requiem was a sequel to the 2000 Japanese film directed by whom?

Context articles: Battle Royale II: Requiem
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Pyrokinesis (film)
Face (2000 film)
Masaya Kikawada
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Battle Royale (film)
Love/Juice
Shizuka na Hibi no Kaidan o
Battle royale game

Battle Royale II: Requiem (バトル・ロワイアルＩＩ　【鎮魂歌】 , "Batoru rowaiaru tsū: "Rekuiemu"" ) , abbreviated as BRII ("Bii āru tsū"), is a 2003 Japanese dystopian action film.
 It is a sequel to the 2000 film, "Battle Royale", which in turn was based upon a controversial 1999 novel of the same title by Koushun Takami.
 An extended version of the film is titled Battle Royale II: Revenge.
Dead or Alive 2: Birds (DEAD OR ALIVE 2 逃亡者 ) is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike.
 "Dead or Alive 2: Birds" is unrelated to "Dead or Alive" (1999) or "" (2002) except that all three films have Show Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi in them, and they are all directed by Takashi Miike.
Pyrokinesis (クロスファイア , Kurosufaia ) is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Shusuke Kaneko.
 The film is about a woman with pyrokinetic powers seeks to avenge the murder of her friend.
Face (顔 , Kao ) is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Junji Sakamoto.
 At the 24th Japan Academy Prize it won one award and received four other nominations.
Masaya Kikawada (黄川田 将也 , Kikawada Masaya , born June 1, 1980) is a Japanese actor.
 His most prominent role has been as Takeshi Hongo/Kamen Rider #1 in the film "Kamen Rider The First" and its sequel "Kamen Rider The Next".
 He was also in "Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon" as Sailor Jupiter's love interest Motoki Furuhata, as well as the sequel to "Battle Royale", "".
 He also was Yousuke the disc jockey in the movie "Dear Friends", where he was reunited with Keiko Kitagawa.
 Furthermore, he was in the Japanese drama "My Boss my Hero" playing Sakaki Mikio, younger brother to the main character.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is a multiplayer online battle royale video game developed and published by PUBG Corp., a subsidary of Korean publisher Bluehole.
 The game is based on previous mods that were developed by Brendan "PlayerUnknown" Greene for other games using the 2000 film "Battle Royale" for inspiration, and expanded into a standalone game under Greene's creative direction.
 In the game, up to one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves.
 The available safe area of the game's map decreases in size over time, directing surviving players into tighter areas to force encounters.
 The last player or team standing wins the round.
Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル , Batoru Rowaiaru ) is a 2000 Japanese dystopian film adapted from the 1999 novel of the same name by Koushun Takami.
 It is the final film directed by Kinji Fukasaku, the screenplay written by his son Kenta, and stars Takeshi Kitano.
 The film takes place in a dystopian Japan and it follows the story of Shuya Nanahara, a high-school student, and his classmates.
 Their class has been chosen by the government to take part in an annual game where all the students of the class must fight to the death until only one remains alive.
 The film aroused both domestic and international controversy and was either banned outright or deliberately excluded from distribution in several countries.
Love/Juice is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Kaze Shindō.
 This is a debut feature film for Shindō, one of the few Japanese women directors.
"Shizuka na Hibi no Kaidan o" (静かな日々の階段を , Climbing the Stairs of Quiet Days ) is the sixth LP recording by Dragon Ash; released in 2000.
 The title track was the ending theme for the popular Japanese film "Battle Royale", also released in 2000.
 A version of the song appeared on their 2001 album Lily of da Valley.
A battle royale game or battle royal game is a genre video game that blends the survival, exploration and scavenging elements of a survival game with last man standing gameplay.
 Battle royale games challenge a large number of players, starting with minimal equipment, to search for weapons and armor and eliminate other opponents all while avoiding being trapped outside of a shrinking "safe area", with the winner being the last competitor in the game.
 The name for the genre is adapted from the early entries in the field which were inspired by the Japanese media franchise "Battle Royale", as well as being a computerized form of a traditional battle royal.