Title: Dead Or Alive: Final
Year: 2002
Region: 4
Rating: R18+
Genre: Crime
Cast: Sho Aikawa, Maria Chen, Richard Chen, Jason Chu, Hiro Hayama, Josie
Ho, Tony Ho, Ken Lo, Rachel Ngan, Riki Takeuchi, Don Thai Theerathada, William
Tuen, Terence Yin & Chung Chi Li.
Director: Takashi Miike
Description: Freely referencing everything from anime to Huxley's Brave
New World, from Blade Runner to Jean Luc Godard, director Takashi Miike crafts a
spectacular conclusion to his wildly successful series. In Yokohama, AD 2346, a
simmering multiethnic melting pot ruled by flamboyantly cruel Dictator Woo
threatens to boil over. Woo's dystopian vision of a city where procreation is
forbidden is desperately resisted by an underworld alliance of crooks and
rebels, but brutally enforced by super-cop Honda (Riki Takeuchi). When the
uneasy rebels accidentally capture Honda's son, the only thing standing between
them and Honda's implacable wrath is Ryo (Show Aikawa), an android killing
machine with his own deadly agenda. Extravagantly laced with plenty of dynamic,
bone crunching mayhem and a rogues' gallery of endearingly bizarre characters,
DOA: Final is Miike's lush valentine to Japanese "V Films;" the no-holds barred,
direct-to-video crime films where both Miike and his Dead or Alive series got
their start. A uniquely inventive, slyly post-modern cinematic comfit all its
own, DOA: Final brings the series to an end with an aberrant exuberance that
surpasses the first two Dead or Alive films while it "tosses around some
intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life."
Chapters: Scene Selections
Extras: None
Release: Original Edition
Media: Regular DVD
Case: Standard
Discs: 1
Format: PAL
Type: Single Layer
Display: 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Picture: Colour
Audio: Dolby Digital AC-3
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Duration: 88 minutes
Condition: Brand New & Sealed