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Dead or Alive: Final

Play trailer Poster for Dead or Alive: Final 2002,  1h 28m,  Mystery & Thriller/ Action/ Crime/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 42% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 40% 1,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
42% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 40% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
A drug lord orders a policeman (Riki Takeuchi) to crush a rebel guerrilla (Terence Yin), which leaves the latter's girlfriend looking for revenge.

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Bilge Ebiri Citysearch Nov 29, 2002
8/10
Although some viewers will not be able to stomach so much tongue-in-cheek weirdness, those who do will have found a cult favorite to enjoy for a lifetime. Go to Full Review
V.A. Musetto New York Post Nov 29, 2002
2/4
Plods along, minus the twisted humor and eye-popping visuals that have made Miike ... a cult hero. Go to Full Review
Stephen Holden New York Times Nov 29, 2002
3/5
Alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama, this smart-aleck movie ... tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life. Go to Full Review
Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse Dec 1, 2019
Miike directs a movie that pins the Chinese against the Japanese, although this time the concept is presented in a completely different fashion, mainly because the main language in the story is Cantonese, and only the two protagonists speak Japanese Go to Full Review
Ed Travis Cinapse Nov 13, 2018
Final is a fitting capper to the trilogy Go to Full Review
Anton Bitel Film4 Jun 12, 2007
2.5/5
a disappointing lo-fi sci-fi closer to an excellent trilogy - even if its climactic sequence is one of Miike's ballsiest. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Takashi Miike

Director

Riki Takeuchi

Officer Takeshi Honda

Shô Aikawa

Ryô

Terence Yin

Fong

Josie Ho

Jun

Maria Chen

Michelle

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Dead or Alive: Final

Rebel group (center: Terence Yin as Fon and Josie Ho as Jyun) Woo's fighter Riki Takeuchi as Honda Show Aikawa as Ryo Honda (Riki Takeuchi) and Ryo (Show Aikawa) fight Dead or Alive: Final (2002) Dead or Alive: Final (2002) View more photos

Movie Info

Synopsis A drug lord orders a policeman (Riki Takeuchi) to crush a rebel guerrilla (Terence Yin), which leaves the latter's girlfriend looking for revenge.
Director
Takashi Miike
Producer
Yoshihiro Masuda, Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
Screenwriter
Hitoshi Ishikawa, Yoshinobu Kamo, Ichiro Ryu
Distributor
Kino Pictures
Production Co
Excellent Film, Daiei Motion Picture Company, Toei Video Company
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 29, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 24, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$1.8K
Runtime
1h 28m
Sound Mix
Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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