Dead or Alive: Final
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| German title | Dead or Alive: Final |
| Original title | Dead or Alive Final |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Takashi Miike |
| script |
Hitoshi Ishikawa Yoshinobu Kamo Ichiro Ryu |
| production |
Makoto Okada Yoshihiro Masuda |
| music | Kōji Endō |
| camera | Kazunari Tanaka |
| cut | Shūwa Kōgen |
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Dead or Alive: Final , also Dead or Alive 3 ( Japanese DEAD OR ALIVE FINAL) is a Japanese science fiction film by director Takashi Miike from 2002. In addition to the thematic loneliness in a technocratic world, China's current one is also undisguised Politics denounced.
After Dead or Alive from 1999 and Dead or Alive 2 (2000), the film is the final part of a film trilogy that has only rudimentary references to its predecessors.
action
Japan in a bleak vision of the future in 2346. The country is completely occupied, controlled and monitored by China. In the Japanese city of Yokohama , the gay mayor Woo has been establishing a totalitarian regime of terror for seven years, which criminalizes sex, marriage, family and children. The mad despot, who only tolerates same-sex love between men, plans total birth control and therefore regularly administers the population to infertility pills, which must be taken by all citizens. Anyone who defies his command, i.e. refuses the medication administered or still becomes pregnant, is considered a criminal. A well-organized security apparatus under the direction of the experienced Commander Honda, who later has to discover that he and his family are androids , monitors compliance with the regulations.
Against this background, the Tokyo- born, blonde-colored replicant Ryō - a meek fighting android who has far greater powers than normal people - happens to meet a little boy whom he stands by during a subsequent police operation and whom he ultimately protects. Through the boy, the newcomer gets into a rebel group of young people around the pregnant Jun and her friend Fong, who bravely defies Woo's regulations. Ryō joins the quarreling group that wants to free prisoners of like-minded people as part of their struggle for human dignity.
After a failed assassination attempt on the dictatorial Woo, the rebel group flees with a boarded coach, in which Takeshi Honda, the young son of the mayor's subordinate police chief, happens to be. This is so involuntarily kidnapped. After identifying the underage hostage, the youthful troop plan to swap the child for a pregnant woman, her husband, and a number of loyal comrades in arms. During the agreed handover of the hostage, however, the situation escalated and ultimately a cruel bloodbath with deaths on both sides ensued. Fong is among the many dead.
The surviving Jun leaves their familiar domicile with her little brother and Ryō and flees the hostile city. The hard-nosed Honda, who obviously finds it difficult to show emotions, then goes on the offensive and chases the remaining resistance fighters. In the course of his research, the once loyal subordinate becomes increasingly alienated from the mayor until he classifies him as intolerable. This inevitably leads to a trial of strength between the unequal men. In the meantime, Honda is revealing the well-kept secret of his family - they are human-like robots that are unconditionally subject to Woo's orders. The rebellious Honda has thus tied his hands, and action against his “creator” is impossible.
At the end of the film, the two protagonists of the film series face each other in a final confrontation. Their fateful, surreal get-together ends with the merging into a giant battle android. In one of the last scenes of the film, Woo is disturbed by something strange, which in the end is what the director leaves to the audience's imagination.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film wrote, "the equally hard and getting used to film" wait "with numerous cinematic reminiscences on" that a closeness to "Ridley Scott's style-science fiction film, Blade Runner '' can be recognized. However, the director sacrifices "the rather dramatic story of the prescribed childlessness of a series of action scenes" .
Web links
- Dead or Alive: Final in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dead or Alive: Final in the online film database
- Dead or Alive: Final at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dead or Alive: Final. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .