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A daring exercise in ultra-violent extremes.
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.
Dead or Alive
1999 ‘DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者’ Directed by Takashi Miike
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Dead or Alive - Hanzaisha, Dead or Alive I
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A cop with cool shades and a gangster with a forever mullet running around doing crazy shit in this Takashi Miike acid trip. Falling hooker. Kissy kissy. Stripper tits. Funky sunglasses worn only at night. Pussy poker. Yummy noodles! The longest line of cocaine ever. Ass shakin'. Tit suck. Bathroom doggy. Neck stab. Itty bitty bit of blood. Soupy stomach. Kitty sniffer. Extreme shotgun. Open legs. Pole licker. Music you only hear at the craziest raves. Stripper clown? Adidas tennis shoes. Spinning wheel? Bicycle hand brake. Cops watch NYPD Blue? Edward Furlong's Japanese look-a-like. Beachside fun. Bathing suit seduction. Dog fucker? Riki Takeuchi's mature mullet. The opening 10 minutes is batshit Miike super crazy. You might need detox or rehab…
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I love that in the West the tagline attached to this movie was "Takashi Miike: the rabid dog of Japanese cinema returns to the bite the world on its ass".
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Movie wise, 2020 was definitely the year of Franco for me, where I watched 40+ of uncle Jess' movies. After watching Dead or Alive, I kind of want this year to be the year of Takashi Miike. So I'm going to set myself a challenge: 21 Miike movies in 2021.
That should be doable, right?
01 of 21 Miike movies watched
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I've been guilty of underrating this film in the past. It's been a long time since I last watched it - a lot of water under the bridge, many movies logged (including the whole Black Society trilogy) - and you know what, I think this might just be Miike's magnum opus, as far as his yakuza output goes.
Dead Or Alive kicks off in a pulse-pounding 6-minute blaze of sex, violence and gastronomic obscenity, tongue firmly in cheek. It's a fantastic opening sequence that sets the scene for what's to come, functioning as abstract for Miike's insane thesis and condensing what follows into a lurid concentrate. Revisiting familiar territory, DOA gives us a turf war between a gang of ambitious…
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Takashi Miike is a national treasure
The opening of this film is a sensory onslaught the likes of which I have never experienced before. The ending is one of the coolest I’ve ever seen. The middle parts were fine.
POO POOL 7
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An absolutely bonkers opening, and surely the all-time greatest ending to a film. The coolness of the two leads and Miike’s injections of insanity between the film’s beginning and end are enough to keep the middle engaging, too.
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Takashi Miike Revisited (#5)
Master Lord Commander Alejandro Jodorowsky once said in an interview that Takashi Miike is quite possibly the greatest filmmaker working today. He went off into a joyful tirade describing in great detail his favorite moments in Miike films, like Fudoh for example, which shows a seemingly innocent little schoolgirl spreading her legs to shoot a dart out of her pussy into a guy's neck. He describes in so many words that it's this insanely entertaining and daring kind of mindset Miike has that most auteurs today are lacking and how such a quality is what puts him above so many contemporary indie filmmakers, and there is some heavy truth to that. What separates him from most…
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Over the past 6 months or so I've used lunch breaks at work to watch movies. One of those movies, Anger's Scorpio Rising, I hysterically shared with a coworker who said it was the worst movie he has ever seen.
Needless to say, I didn't feel the same way. Anger, in a relatively short feature, explored the grey area between redline macho violence, homosexuality, and sexual dominance pecking orders. Takashi Miike extrapolates this grey area in Dead or Alive's powerful opening sequence, featuring: *Joe Bob Briggs voice* hard-core gratuitous gay sex, gratuitous (man) violence, gratuitous rollercoaster drug use, gratuitous Ramen eating, gratuitous exotic dancing amid cross cuts of a phallic, gratuitous pompadour.
After the initial high, the movie sadly tapers…
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Week 2: Jan. 8-Jan. 14
Takashi Miike WeekWARNING: This motion picture contains explicit portrayals of violence; sex; violent sex; sexual violence; clowns and violent scenes of violent excess, which are definitely not suitable for all ages. —Tagline
Even though I was unlucky enough to only own the old Kino R-rated release, which cuts out 7 minutes of extra gore and nudity, I still thoroughly enjoyed this early Takashi Miike film. It’s not one of my favorites, but Dead or Alive is still filled with crazy shit only a madman like Miike could come up with.
Everyone talks about the gonzo opening and for good reason. It’s a coked our music video of nonstop t/a, blood,…
