The most dangerous game influenced バトル・ロワイアル (Battle Royale)

The same ancestor, reaching Japan by a different route. Connell's island, its time limit, and its rule that survival is the only victory condition are the engine Takami runs on a class of fifteen-year-olds. What Takami adds is that the hunters are each other rather than a host: there is no Zaroff on the island, only the government that put them there and a map of expanding forbidden zones to keep them moving.