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Dead or Alive

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Sequel:

Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha

Original title

Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha

Year

1999

Running time

105 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Takashi Miike

Screenwriter

Ichiro Ryu

Cast

Music

Kôji Endô

Cinematography

Hideo Yamamoto

Producer

Daiei Eiga, Toei Video Company, Excellent Film

Genre

Thriller. Action | Yakuza & Triad

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Dead or Alive

Synopsis

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.

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Dead or Alive

1999

Takashi Miike

6.1

(1,691)