The Hunger Games vs Bttle Royale (films only)

I watched The Hungar Games for the first time last night and quite enjoyed it, but I was barely half an hour in before I was thinking that Koushun Takami should be getting some serious royalties for this, it's very close to being a direct lift.

As much as I loved the Battle Royale film, along with Ring it was one of the two films that got me into Asian cinima, I definitely see it as being underdeveloped these days, with too much emphasis put on the students killing each other, though I think it dealt with the kids killing each other concept better. Overall though The Hunger Games is a better film with a more cohesivea dn developed story, though being the first part of a trliogy it doesnt need to look too much at the social background to the games, something BR glossed over.

I havent read the Suzanne Collins books, but I suspect Takami's would win out there easily, I adore that book.

I'll watch these one day.

Havn't seen, or read, either but with what I've heard  (and OP verifies)...might as well give it to the original right?