Battle Royale (2000)

In both shows a group of people are taken to an island and have to survive. There can only be one survivor though.

Squid Game
-The people have to play children games .
-The people had a choice whether to play or not.
-There is a prize for the winner.
-The characters are mostly adults who are in dept.
-A little less violent.

Battle Royale
-The people have to kill each other.
-The people have no choice and have to play.
-There is no prize, unless you live.
-The characters are a group of high schoolers from the same class.
-Probably more violent.

It is another survival game but this one has no set up and is more like "Hunger Games" than an unknown higher power running the show.

It has the same feel of high school students, running around and getting killed off. The gore, the violence and a freakish story line... it's all in both films.

Both are about pupils who are forced to fight each other to survive.

They're both brutal bloody films centred on a group of high school students' massacre. While the overview is similar, the plots are quite different since Battle Royale is about a surviving game where students kill each other while Lesson of the Evil is about a psychopath killer teacher.

Both are futuristic,death oriented,concerned about the society and the youth.

In both movies people kill each other in order to remain alive.

japanese, badass

since that apparently isn't enough:
full of teens
ridiculous
based off manga

Survival at any cost? Both movies stick to the (by now classic) theme of getting through a terrifying game in order to survive.
Battle Royale is by far the most well known of the Asian ones and the one that paved way for all that followed. BR is much gorier but also better in plot and premise. If you like survival flicks, you will probably like both of them.

Both movies have killing and stuff. Try it.

Both have gruesome deaths and students must learn to survive. Both involve lots of murder. Although, it's not a mystery like Death Bell.

High school student surviving game & is a classic Japanese movie back in late 90s & early 2000s. A must watch dark thriller psychological movie.

It has the similar concept of experimentation and making students turn against each other through betrayal and physiological games However this is very graphic and disturbing.

High school student surviving game & is a classic Japanese movie back in late 90s & early 2000s. A must watch dark thriller psychological movie.

High school student surviving game & is a classic Japanese movie back in late 90s & early 2000s. A must watch dark thriller psychological movie.