Genre: Action, Crime, Prostitution, Urban, Betrayal, Murder, Revenge, Thieves, Gore, Suspense
Tagline: WARNING: This motion picture contains explicit portrayals of violence; sex; violent sex; sexual violence; clowns and violent scenes of violent excess, which are definitely not suitable for all audiences.
Plot: 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. 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
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 If your brain can take everything thrown at you and assemble it into something that makes sense, you might find Dead or Alive to your liking.  -- (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
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| Cast |
Riki Takeuchi
Battle Royale II, Last Life in the Universe, Gokudô sengokushi: Fudô | | | | | | Dankan
3-4x jugatsu, Ju-on: The Curse 2 | |
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Kôji Endô
Audition, Visitor Q, The Happiness of the Katakuris |
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