DEAD OR ALIVE-FINAL (DVD/1.85/ENG-SUB) DVD

Dead or Alive: Final
DragonBall Z meets Blade Runner meets a William S. Burroughs head trip in this hallucinogenic sci-fi flick directed by Takashi Miike. It is set in the year 2346 in the city-state of Yokohama, which has become thoroughly sinocized in the intervening 300 years. People speak a mishmash of Japanese, Chinese, and English and the streets are bathed in digital noise. The place is run with an iron fist by an exuberantly gay potentate named Woo (Richard Cheung) who, hoping to fashion a newer, crueler society, drugs the populace with a cocktail akin to Prozac-laced birth control pills. Pregnant women and children are sent to prison. Woo's lead henchman is named Honda (Riki Takeuchi), a sneering uber-cop with a Wayne Newton-style head of hair. The underground resistance is led by the English-speaking Fon (Terence Yin), his fierce girlfriend Jyun (Josie Ho), and a yellow-haired humanoid robot named Ryo (Sho Aikawa). Raids, kung-fu fistfights, and general weirdness ensue until the cataclysmic showdown between Ryo and Honda. This film is the third and final in Miike's reported Dead or Alive trilogy. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Cast n/a

Crew Takashi Miike - Director Ichiro Ryu - Screenwriter

Dead or Alive: Final
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(no awards)

General Specifications: Language Options: Subtitle Options: English Sound Processing: Additional Features: Optional English subtitles Original trailer Trailer gallery DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1: Theatre Wide-Screen MPAA Rating: DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 88 min   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. A Duty to Live [4:49] 2. The Mayor's Office [1:25] 3. Faceoff [4:30] 4. Remnants of the Old World [10:00] 5. Snatch Gone Wrong [4:43] 6. New Comrades [7:36] 7. An Unfair Exchange [9:16] 8. A Question of Sacrifice [5:38] 9. The Swimming Lesson [5:14] 10. A New Way of Thinking [5:14] 11. Old Friends Meet [3:21] 12. Fathers and Sons [7:38] 13. Replicant's Reflection [8:57] 14. Final Showdown [4:36] 15. DOA 2001 [5:49]