Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play After a rapid-fire montage of two groups of gangsters one Japanese the other ethnic Chinese killing each other & 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 & 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 & 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 & DR STRANGELOVE it reaches absolutely apocalyptic proportions Actors Riki Takeuchi Renji Ishibashi Sho Aikawa Susumu Terajima & Ren Osugi Director Takashi Miike Certificate 18 years & over Year 2000 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages Japanese
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 45 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players