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Dead Or Alive (DVD, 2002)

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After a rapid-fire montage of two groups of gangsters, one Japanese, the other ethnic Chinese, killing each other and everybody else on screen, DEAD OR ALIVE's story begins when a police officer announces, Round up everybody who looks (suspicious), even if they aren't Chinese. The Chinese have been living in Japan for centuries, but have never been accepted or integrated into Japanese society. This larger conflict underlies the blood and gore of the two gangs vying to make a big drug purchase from a mainland Chinese gang. When Jojima (Show Aikawa) an otherwise honest cop, needs money for an operation for his daughter, he gets a loan from the head of the Japanese gang, but when his partner kills the brother of the leader of the Chinese mafia, Ryuichi (Riki Rakeuchi), a blood feud begins between the two men.<BR>DEAD OR ALIVE's fast-paced cinematic presentation, black humor, tongue-in-cheek satire, and misogynist sadism set it apart from similar films by Takeshi Kitano. Director Takashi Miike's earlier film, AUDITION, is known for its stunning ending, but here he builds up to a parody of the big showdown that is so hysterically comic that, borrowing from Monty Python and DR. STRANGELOVE, it reaches absolutely apocalyptic proportions.

Product Identifiers

ProducerToshiki Kimura, Makoto Okada

EAN5023965339225

eBay Product ID (ePID)3952556

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleDead or Alive

ActorSusumu Terajima, Renji Ishibashi, Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi

DirectorTakashi Miike

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

FormatDVD

Release Year2002

LanguageJapanese

FeaturesTrailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer\2. Asia Extreme Trailer Reel\Interview - 1. Miike Takashi - Director\Filmographies\Chris Campion Film Notes, With Subtitles

Run Time105 Mins

GenreThriller, General