"The Hunger Games" tells an uncomfortably relevant story of a group of young people who are randomly chosen to fight to the death in an outdoor arena. Society has become a dystopian nightmare. Totalitarian government-approved death sports are used to maintain order over the people. The only survivors are a boy and girl who develop a close bond. Fun premise, right? Well, it isn't the only story of its kind, as the 2000 Japanese movie "Battle Royale" explored the concept years before Suzanne Collins' novels, and the "Hunger Games" movie series that followed, came to be.

The similarities certainly haven't been lost on Quentin Tarantino, a filmmaker who's cited the Kinji Fukasaku-directed "Battle Royale" as one of his favorite films of the 21st century — and one of the movies that inspir

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