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Dead Or Alive Trilogy (2 Disc) (Ruang rak noi nid mahasan)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Beginning with an explosive, six-minute montage of sex, drugs and violence, and ending with a phaIlus-headed battle robot taking fIight, Takashi Miike's unforgettable Dead or Alive Trilogy features many of the director's most outrageous moments set alongside some of his most dramaticalIy moving scenes. Made between 1999 and 2002, the Dead or Alive fiIms cemented Miike's reputation overseas as one of the most provocative enfants terrible of Japanese cinema, yet also one of its most talented and innovative filmmakers.
In Dead or Alive, tough gangster Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi) and his ethnicaIly Chinese gang make a play to take over the drug trade in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by massacring the competition. But he meets his match in detective Jojima (Show Aikawa), who wilI do everything to stop them. Dead or Alive 2: Birds casts Aikawa and Takeuchi together again, but as new characters, a pair of rivaI yakuza assassins who turn out to be chiIdhood friends; after a botched hit, they flee together to the island where they grew up, and decide to devote their deadly skilIs to a more humanitarian cause. And in Dead or AIive: Final, Takeuchi and Aikawa are catapulted into a future Yokohama ruled by muItiIingual gangs and cyborg soldiers, where they once again butt heads in the action-packed and cyberpunk-tinged finaIe to the trilogy.
Each of them unique in theme and tone, the Dead or Alive films showcase Miike at the peak of his strengths, creating three very distinct movies connected only by their two popuIar main actors, each fiIm a separate yet superb exampIe of crime drama, character study, and action filmmaking.
SPECIAL EDITlON CONTENTS:
High Definition digital transfers of aII three fiIms Original uncompressed stereo audio Optional English subtitles for aII three fiIms New interview with actor Riki Takeuchi New interview with actor Sho Aikawa New interview with producer and screenwriter Toshiki Kimura New audio commentary for Dead or Alive by Miike biographer Tom Mes Archive interviews with cast and crew Archive making-of featurettes for DOA2: Birds and DOA: FinaI OriginaI theatrical traiIers for all three films ReversibIe sleeve featuring originaI and newIy commissioned artwork by Orlando Arocena FlRST PRESSlNG ONLY: Illustrated collector s bookIet featuring new writing on the films by Kat EIlinger |
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