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The director of Dead or Alive, Takashi Miike, made his name on the international scene with Audition, a chilling psychological thriller that builds from a quiet start towards a prolonged torture sequence almost too unbearable to watch. But such deliberate pacing isn't typical of Miike, whose movies often assault the viewer with an onslaught of slam-bang action that makes John Woo look like Eric Rohmer. Dead or Alive, his most successful cops-vs-yakuza thriller to date, kicks off with six nonstop minutes of machine gun-paced violence, sex, and slaughter, all set to a pounding heavy-metal beat. Thereafter things calm down a little, though not much. Given Miike's penchant for murky, livid-toned visuals and skewed camera angles, it's not always too easy to work out exactly who's doing what to whom, but the general outline's clear enough. The Tokyo underworld is being torn apart by a turf war between the yakuza gangs and the invading Chinese triads. Ambitious yakuza member Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi) isn't above playing both sides off against each other in his bid for power, while police detective Jojima (Sho Aikawa), himself none too scrupulous in his methods, is out to destroy the gangs.

Into this conventional plot framework Miike piles enough warped characters and bizarre, twisted happenings to fuel half-a-dozen Tarantino movies, while cheerfully borrowing--and inflating--key moments from such hard-boiled gangster-noirs as The Big Heat and Kiss Me Deadly. One character deep-fries his own hand, a stripper is drowned in a paddling-pool filled with her own excrement, and the literally apocalyptic finale, the showdown to end all showdowns, will leave you gasping. The appallingly prolific Miike, who regularly makes about five movies a year, has since directed two sequels--the first only three months after the original. --Philip Kemp

CATEGORY: Video
DIRECTOR: Takashi Miike
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: 1999
MANUFACTURER: Kino Video
MPAA RATING: Unrated
FEATURES: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC
TYPE: Foreign Film - Japanese, Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle], International, Movie
MEDIA: VHS Tape
# OF MEDIA: 1
UPC: 738329043230

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Customer Reviews of Dead or Alive (R-Rated Edition)

Miike is pure genious....
What can I say - I saw an earlier review that said this movie had the best opening and ending of all time - that is pretty accurate. You see a bit (although nothing like Ichi) of the violent excess that Miike wants to give you, but he adds a very touching element that deals with the loss of a close family member (Ryuichi's little brother Toji, and Jojima's wife and daughter) and creates an excellent (albeit intense), emotional plot line that delivers from the first second to the very last. <
>Classic, brilliant Miike, perhaps one of his best. <
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Awesome Film
This is the first time I have ever done a review of a film. I can honestly say that if you haven't seen this film, you should really check it out. It is fast paced action, and Takashi Miike is the only director who can pull something like this off. Don't just stop here, continue the trilogy and just have a good time watching these films that should be in everyones collection. <
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>I have read all the reviews and they all summarize the plot real well, so I am not going to get all into that. If you have ever seen Audition or Ichi the Killer, then this is highly recommended.


Great opening, crazy ending, cool middle!!
DoA grabs you from the start with a real opening montage shot, edited slickly and stylishly, after 10 minutes it calms down and <
>the pace slows but what a great intro! <
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>this movie, has what I love about movies, great cool and down right nasty bad guys, over the top violence, gangsters,drug themes, nice looking leads and above all very very stlyishly made. <
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>You wont see this on TV, because its all in your face and pretty raw but all very entertaining stuff from Japan! <
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>Check out this DVD, recommend you experiece this movie.

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