Movie
Dead or Alive
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1999-11-27
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Genres
- Action, Thriller, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Toei Video Company
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Riki Takeuchi as Ryuuichi
- Show Aikawa as Det. Jojima
- Renji Ishibashi as Aoki
- Shingo Tsurumi as Chen
- Ren Osugi as Yan
- Kaoru Sugita as Mrs. Jojima
- Dankan as Tanaka
- Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi as Hoshiyama
- Hitoshi Ozawa as Seiji Satake
- Mizuho Koga as Mariko
- Michisuke Kashiwaya as Toji
- Kyosuke Yabe as Hitoshi Matsushima
Crew
- Takashi Miike - Director
- Toshiki Kimura - Screenplay
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