Dead or Alive: Final

In the conclusion to Takashi Miike’s uproarious action/splatter trilogy, Riki Takeuchi and Sho Aikawa are catapulted into a future Yokohama ruled by multilingual gangs and cyborg soldiers, where they once again butt heads in a fashion-forward, cyberpunk-tinged melee.

“Another genre blowout that manages to also take the piss out of not only itself but two famous SF titans: BLADE RUNNER and TETSUO: THE IRON MAN. In this dystopian vision, everyone speaks a blend of Cantonese, English, and Japanese — and the sky is the color of a 15-year-old computer monitor: yellow and dirty, with a desaturated color palette. This time out, he has role-played the characters in a way that plays with HK and Japanese action, Japanese and Western sci-fi, video games and anime.” - Tom Mes, Midnight Eye