| | Dead Or Alive DVD (1 Customer Review)
| Category | Foreign Films DVDs, Action/Adventure Movies, Violence Videos, Scantily Clad Women, Urban Life, Prostitutes, Urban Crime | | Starring | Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Renji Ishibashi, Susuma Terajima | | Director | Takashi Miike | | Composer | Kojo Endo | | Director of Photography | Hideo Yamamoto | | Producer | Toshiki Kimura, Makoto Okada, Ono Katsumi | | Screenwriter | Ichiro Ryu |
A prostitute plunges to her death clutching a bag of drugs, a furtive men's room tryst climaxes in a geyser of blood, an after-dinner shotgun blast graphically puts a new spin on bulimia. Takashi Miike's film of kaleidoscopic mayhem and frrenzied violence. 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 proportions. Theatrical release: June 8, 2001 Dead Or Alive Reviews: "...It demonstrates enough flair and grotesque wit to make for very enjoyable viewing..."
-- Ben Walters, Sight and Sound Dead Or Alive | List Price | $19.95 (You save $5.20) | | Studio | Kino on Video | | Orig Year | 2001 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  25671  | | CD Universe Part number | 5752875 | | Catalog number | 2842 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | May 27, 2003 | | Rating | Unrated | | Running Time | 105 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Unrated | | Movie Details | Color; UnEdited Version; Director's Cut; Widescreen; Unrated; Unrated Director's Cut |
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