These are slides from my recent speech comparing the Japanese book movie 'Battle Royale' to American book movie 'Hunger Games'

1. Battle Vs Game

2. Battle Royale
Vs
Hunger Games

3. Battle Vs Hunger
Royale
Games
Author: koushun Takami
Book published: 1999
Author: Suzanne Collins
Book published: 2008
Movie 1: 2000
Movie 1: 2012
Directed by : Kinji Fukesaku
Directed by : Gary Ross

4. Battle Vs Hunger
Royale
Games
Best selling book series
Made into the highest grossing movie(s)
with two sequels each
Main characters are teenagers, exploited
by adults

5. Battle Vs Hunger
Royale
Games
Settings: Authoritarian & corrupted governments
Fighters are picked through a lottery system
Basic Plot: Teens forced to kill each other until
one left standing.

6. Battle Vs Hunger
Royale
Games
Televised live
Adults are watching and betting on the outcome
In the middle of game, rule changed to allow
a pair of star-crossed lovers to both live
By end of first episode, an anti-government movement started

7. Battle Vs Hunger
Royale
Games
• The Kids were drugged and
taken to a remote
island, kicking and
screaming.
• Kids were
intimidated, scolded, beaten
before sending out to kill
each other.
• 42 kids total
• A lot of violence & gore
• The kids were taken to the
capital arena on high-speed
train with unlimited
desserts.
• Kids were hailed as
heroes, trained, dressed well
before sending out to kill
each other
• 24 kids total
• A lot of violence & talking

8. Battle Vs Hunger
Royale
Games
• Kids formed support
groups, work together to kill
others and to shut down the
system
• Stephen King said it is "an
insanely entertaining pulp riff
that combines survivor with
World Wrestling Entertainment.
Or maybe Battle Royale is just
insane.“
• At the end, a boy and a girl
survived and they fall in love
and escaped into wilderness
• Kids form support groups, work
together to kill others
• Stephen King said “"I read The
Hunger Games and didn't feel
an urge to go on."
• At the end, a boy and a girl
survived and they fall in love
and get all the attentions

9. Battle Vs Hunger
Royale
Games
The final winners / survivors /
New Lovers
Shuya and Noriko
The final winners / survivors /
New Lovers
Katniss & Peeta

10. Battle Vs Hunger
Royale
Games
Why compare those
two movies?
Don’t you love blood-thirsty gory movies of teens killing
each other survivor style?
Both are awesome to read (books) or to watch
(movies)
Suzanne Collins was suspected of
plagiarism by many people, myself
included.

11. Battle Vs Hunger
Royale
Games
The Hunger Games Episode 2: Catching Fire
is in theatre now.
Battle Royale can be rented on Netflix.
First Episode is the best of the three.
Watch both series of movies to make the
judgments yourself. Which one is better?
Which one is more original?

12. Battle Royale - trailer