Dead or Alive (1999)
Directed by Takashi Miike
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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Some years back, in films like Dead or Alive , Audition , and Ichi the Killer , he was able to strike a good balance between the outrageous and the calculated, but now that balance seems to have been upset.
It's not as extreme as Miike's "Ichi the Killer" or "Dead or Alive" movies but it is impressively excessive and equally riveting.
This is the Takashi Miike of Dead or Alive and Ichi the Killer.
Miike first showed up on my radar about ten years ago, with the twin cinematic killers of Audition (an unforgettably grisly horror film) and Dead or Alive (a wild and audacious crime thriller), and while I have not kept up with all his work (who could, with that sort of output?) it is clear that Miike's wildly divergent tastes have continue to inform his work.
Ever since the inception of the Miike cult in the West in 1999, the year that saw the release of his subversive melodrama of cruelty Audition (Odishon) and his yakuza film Dead or Alive (Hanzaisha), he’s been marketed mainly in terms of coolness, focusing on virtuoso violent spectacle, exotic weirdo humour and stylistic inventiveness.
And if you're familiar with the films of director Takashi Miike -- which include Audition, Dead or Alive, and Ichi the Killer -- you know that that violence is going to be stylish, over-the-top, and utterly captivating.
Takashi Miike is no stranger to producing disturbing, genre-busting, and gut-wrenching cinematic treats like the Dead or Alive series, Audition , and Visitor Q .
Japan's Takashi Miike has become a filmmaking phenomenon for his ultra-violent Dead or Alive trilogy, the nightmarish Audition, and for this film, a sizzling, orgiastic celebration of bloodshed and depravity.
Japanese "B" movie master Takashi Miike follows up last year's Dead or Alive and Audition with this new gross-out classic.