Takashi Miike’s ‘Dead Or Alive Trilogy’ coming to US DVD and Blu-ray

By   |  Jan 17, 2017

Arrow Video will be bringing Takashi Miike’s ‘Dead Or Alive Trilogy’ to US DVD and Blu-ray on March 14, 2017.

Beginning with an explosive, six-minute montage of sex, drugs and violence, and ending with a phallus-headed battle robot taking flight, Takashi Miike’s unforgettable ‘Dead Or Alive Trilogy’ features many of the director’s most outrageous moments set alongside some of his most dramatically moving scenes. Made between 1999 and 2002, the ‘Dead Or Alive’ films cemented Miike’s reputation overseas as one of the most provocative directors of Japanese cinema, yet also one of its most talented and innovative filmmakers.

Synopsis: In ‘Dead or Alive’, tough gangster Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi) and his ethnically 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 will do everything to stop them. ‘Dead or Alive 2: Birds’ casts Aikawa and Takeuchi together again, but as new characters, a pair of rival yakuza assassins who turn out to be childhood friends; after a botched hit, they flee together to the island where they grew up, and decide to devote their deadly skills to a more humanitarian cause. And in ‘Dead or Alive: Final’, Takeuchi and Aikawa are catapulted into a future Yokohama ruled by multilingual gangs and cyborg soldiers, where they once again butt heads in the action-packed and cyberpunk-tinged finale to the trilogy.

‘Dead Or Alive Trilogy’ is available for pre-order now from Amazon.com.

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