Alive (2002 film)
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| Directed by | Ryuhei Kitamura |
| Produced by | Taizō Fukumaki |
| Written by | Manga: Tsutomu Takahashi Screenplay: Ryuhei Kitamura Yūdai Yamaguchi Isao Kiriyama |
| Starring | Hideo Sakaki Tak Sakaguchi |
| Music by | Nobuhiko Morino Daisuke Yano |
| Distributed by | The Klock Worx Company Ltd. |
| Release date(s) | September 12, 2002 |
| Running time | 119 min. |
| Language | Japanese |
Alive is a 2002 Japanese action film and the fourth film by director Ryuhei Kitamura. It is based on the manga ALIVE (published in 1999; Shueisha) by Tsutomu Takahashi and stars Hideo Sakaki as the protagonist, Tenshu. Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments. He chooses the latter and is put in a cell with a rapist and a woman who's infected with a taint that transports from person to person during extreme anger. The taint is transferred to Tenshu and he must now deal with the military who has interrupted the experiment to obtain it.
Hideo Sakaki, who portrayed the villain in Kitamura's previous film, Versus, now plays the hero in this film. Likewise Tak Sakaguchi who was the hero in Versus returns in this film as the villain. This film, which is broken into titled chapters, titles the scene in which the two characters battle as "VERSUS".
Eight other cast members from Versus also appeared in this movie.
[edit] Cast
- Hideo Sakaki as Tenshu Yashiro
- Ryō as Yurika Saegusa
- Koyuki as Asuka Saegusa
- Shun Sugata as Matsuda
- Erika Oda as Misako Hara
- Tak Sakaguchi as Zeros
- Jun Kunimura as Kojima
- Ryushi Mizukami as Warden 1
- Keita Kimura as Warden 2
- Minoru Aoki as Warden 3
- Boba as Hair Cut Guard
- Takanori Hamachika as Guard 1
- Makato Kitami as Guard 2
- Seki Watanabe as Guard 3
- Suenari Matsubara as Guard 4
- Minoru Matsumoto as SWAT 1
- Yuichiro Arai as SWAT 2
- Kazuhito Ohba as SWAT 3
- Takehiro Katayama as SWAT 4
- Motonari Komiya as SWAT 5
- Hiroyuki Yoshida as SWAT 6
- Toshinari Horiuchi as SWAT 7
- Taro Kanazawa as SWAT 8
- Ryuji Gotoh as SWAT 9
- Gô Ohara as SWAT 10
- Kenji Matsuda as SWAT Leader
- Bengal as Tokutake
- Tetta Sugimoto as Gondoh
[edit] External links
- Alive at the Internet Movie Database
- Alive at AllRovi
- "ＡＬＩＶＥ" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/2003/ea002420.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
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