| Dead or Alive: Final | |
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| Directed by | Takashi Miike |
| Produced by | Yoshihiro Masuda Makoto Okada |
| Written by | Hitoshi Ishikawa Yoshinobu Kamo Ichiro Ryu |
| Starring | Riki Takeuchi Show Aikawa |
| Music by | Kōji Endō |
| Cinematography | Kazunari Tanaka |
| Editing by | Shuuwa Kōgen |
| Release date(s) | Japan January 12, 2002 United States November 29, 2002 |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese Cantonese English |
Dead or Alive: Final is a 2002 Japanese cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Takashi Miike. It is the third in a three-part series, preceded by Dead or Alive in 1999 and Dead or Alive 2: Birds in 2000. The films are not connected in any apparent way except by director Takashi Miike and stars Riki Takeuchi and Show Aikawa. Besides Japanese, a lot of the conversation of the film is in Cantonese, and some is in English. Often two people will talk to each other using different languages.
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Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi) is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō (Show Aikawa) is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
While walking to the final confrontation, flashbacks to the first two films in the trilogy are shown, connecting all three films in a non-literal way. At the film's climax, the two characters fuse into a giant robot with a penis shaped head and fly over the mayor, who is engaged in sexual intercourse with a man. He looks over his left shoulder to see the penis-head-robot. This shot is notable for the fact that it provides symmetry with an opening shot of the initial film in the trilogy, wherein a man is interrupted during gay sex in a similar fashion.
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