Dead or Alive: Final

Dead or Alive: Final
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Produced by	Yoshihiro Masuda Makoto Okada
Written by	Hitoshi Ishikawa Yoshinobu Kamo Ichiro Ryu
Starring	Riki Takeuchi Show Aikawa
Music by	Kōji Endō
Cinematography	Kazunari Tanaka
Editing by	Shuuwa Kōgen
Release date(s)	Japan January 12, 2002 United States November 29, 2002
Running time	89 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese Cantonese English

Dead or Alive: Final is a 2002 Japanese cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Takashi Miike. It is the third in a three-part series, preceded by Dead or Alive in 1999 and Dead or Alive 2: Birds in 2000. The films are not connected in any apparent way except by director Takashi Miike and stars Riki Takeuchi and Show Aikawa. Besides Japanese, a lot of the conversation of the film is in Cantonese, and some is in English. Often two people will talk to each other using different languages.

Plot

Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi) is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō (Show Aikawa) is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.

While walking to the final confrontation, flashbacks to the first two films in the trilogy are shown, connecting all three films in a non-literal way. At the film's climax, the two characters fuse into a giant robot with a penis shaped head and fly over the mayor, who is engaged in sexual intercourse with a man. He looks over his left shoulder to see the penis-head-robot. This shot is notable for the fact that it provides symmetry with an opening shot of the initial film in the trilogy, wherein a man is interrupted during gay sex in a similar fashion.

Cast

• Show Aikawa as Ryō
• Maria Chen as Michelle
• Richard Chen as Dictator Woo
• Jason Chu as Prisoner
• Josie Ho as Jun
• Tony Ho as Ping
• Hiroyoshi Komuro
• Ken Lo as Gangster
• Rachel Ngan as Pregnant Woman
• Don Tai as Don
• Riki Takeuchi as Officer Takeshi Honda
• William Tuen as Gangster
• Terence Yin as Fong

Other credits

• Film Editing by: Shuuwa Kōgen
• Production Manager: Hirofumi Yamabe
• Assistant Directors
  • Kimiyoshi Adachi
  • Masato Tanno
• Action choreographer: Chung Chi Li

• Produced by:
  • Toshiki Kimura: associate producer for Excellent Film
  • Mitsuru Kurosawa: executive producer for Toei Video
  • Yoshihiro Masuda: producer for Daiei
  • Makoto Okada: producer for Toei Video
  • Ken Takeuchi: planner
  • Tsutomu Tsuchikawa: executive producer for Daiei

External links

• Dead or Alive: Final at the Internet Movie Database
• Dead or Alive: Final at AllRovi
• Dead or Alive: Final at Metacritic