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Dead or Alive

Dead or Alive

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Dead or Alive

"A daring exercise in ultra-violent extremes."

1999

1h 45m

6.4(181 votes)

Action

Thriller

Crime

Overview

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.

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Toei Video Company

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Riki Takeuchi

Riki Takeuchi

Ryuuichi

Show Aikawa

Show Aikawa

Det. Jojima

Renji Ishibashi

Renji Ishibashi

Aoki

Shingo Tsurumi

Shingo Tsurumi

Chen

Ren Osugi

Ren Osugi

Yan

Kaoru Sugita

Kaoru Sugita

Mrs. Jojima

Dankan

Dankan

Tanaka

Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Hoshiyama

Hitoshi Ozawa

Hitoshi Ozawa

Seiji Satake

Mizuho Koga

Mariko

Creative team

Directed by: Takashi Miike
Written by: Toshiki Kimura
Produced by: Mitsuru Kurosawa
Tsutomu Tsuchikawa

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