Battle Royale (2000)

Once a month, students at Baekyeon Girls' High School cast their votes in a popularity poll. The result? A brutal ranking system that determines the entire social hierarchy of the school.

Sung Su Ji has just transferred and scores a zero. After starting at the bottom and becoming a target of school violence, can Su Ji make her way to the top of the pyramid? Or will she topple the game altogether?

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.

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

Both Brave and Battle Royale are based off manga and novelizations. The biggest point of comparison is that both feature high school casts that are sent to a new location where they must survive or die.

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.

About six people who find themselves trapped in a maze-like cube and have to figure a way out, while evading fatal traps. Six people are locked in a mysterious cube shaped room. These 6 people are: 29-year-old engineer Yuichi Goto, 37-year-old association employee Asako Kai, 31-year-old Freeter Shinji Ochi, 13-year-old middle school student Chiharu Uno, 39-year-old mechanic Hiroshi Ide and 61-year-old company executive Kazumasa Ando. These 6 people are complete strangers to each other. They don't know why they are locked in the room, but they try to escape out of the mysterious cube. If they can't decipher the code, they won't get out of the cube.

Remake of the Canadian movie “CUBE” [1997].

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.

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

These two films definitely bare the same feeling of survival and having to betray each other to survive.

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.

It is about students who try to survive in the most gruesome circumstances. They both are pretty gruesome when it comes the visuals of the movie, lots of gore. Both movies are not light-hearted movies to watch.