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Sho Aikawa,
Sho Aikawa,
Riki Takeuchi,
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Takashi Miike,
Takashi Miike
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: Kino
: Foreign, Japan, Crime, Yakuza
: 97 min.
: English
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In spite of its title, this film bares no direct relation to Takashi Miike's rip-roarin' Dead or Alive, which is not surprising since ended with world going up in flames in the last installment. This film opens with Mizuki (Sho Aikawa), who is hired by an eccentric magic enthusiast (Tsukamoto Shinya) to off a yakuza crime lord, only to have his target wasted by a rival mobster Shuichi (Riki Takeuchi). It turns out that the two are long-lost childhood friends who grew up in an orphanage in a remote island in the Inland sea. After the crime, they find themselves drawn back to their childhood haunt. There they reconnect with another friend, Kohei (Kenichi Endo), who ended up not a hired gun, but a modest fisherman who also runs the orphanage. After giving a hilarious performance for a room full of kids, Mizuki and Shuichi decide to leave the island and to work together as hitmen. This time, however, they're killing to make a difference -- figuring that with each scumbag they ice they can save ten children when they donate their proceeds to charity. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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| unbearable
by liversounds
April 9, 2006 - 12:03 AM PDT
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0 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| the original doa is incredible--subtle, courageous, surreal... but fair warning: part 2 is worthless and doa final is formulaic puke... |
| Great movie number two
by danleary25
February 4, 2004 - 3:41 PM PST
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4 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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| Dead or Alive 2 is a great movie. The "It's not fair to compare it to the original" arguments are unnecessary. DOA2 is Takashi Miike more laid back and sentimental then you are likely to find him again. It's almost his most readily accessible film(although I only say so comparatively). Violent scene are few and far between, but what seemed the more compelling was what came between these scenes. Miike can be just as visually compelling and stylish with normal stories as he can with extreme ones. People tend to hate this movie, but only for the same reason other people think it is good: There is more reliance on well-developed characters then well-developed violence. Dead or Alive 2 also has a lot more comedy then the other DOA movies. As long as you have an interest in Miike in the first place the worst you could do is not see it and judge for yourself. Don't expect anything but an interesting movie. |
| Extremely dissappointing
by kamapuaa
July 31, 2003 - 12:04 AM PDT
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My least favorite Takashi Miike movie - Takashi Miike has a difficult time telling a straightforward story, and veers off on tangents that aren't particularly interesting or relevant. In this movie, he's about as bad as he gets - the entire movie feels like a tangent.
But the real point of Takashi Miike is watching the scenes you can't believe you just saw, as well as the portrayal of Tokyo as an insane multi-cultural cartoonish playground. This movie has a select few visual flourishes, but certainly nothing to compare it to the original Dead or Alive.
The actors, so charismatic in the previous movie (and other Japanese B-movies) aren't given much of a chance to show their stuff. |
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