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Alive

  • Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
  • Genre: Action
  • Movie Type: Sci-Fi Action, Superhero Film
  • Themes: Evil Aliens, Heroic Mission
  • Release Year: 2002
  • Country: JP
  • Run Time: 119 minutes

Plot

Ryuhei Kitamura's Alive, based on a highly popular Japanese series of comic books, begins when convicted killer Tenshu, who murdered the people responsible for raping his girlfriend, survives his trip to the electric chair. Officials give him two choices -- either he takes another trip to the chair or he becomes a guinea pig for an experiment where he must battle aliens. He assumes that any fate is better than the electric chair, but he soon realizes how difficult his new existence will be. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Cast

Erika Oda - Misako Hara; Shun Sugata - Matsuda; Ryo - Yurika Saegusa; Koyuki - Asuka Saegusa; Hideo Sakaki - Tenshu Yashiro

Credit

Ryuhei Kitamura - Director, Ryuhei Kitamura - Screenwriter, Isao Kiriyama - Screenwriter

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Alive
Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura
Produced by Taizō Fukumaki
Written by Manga:
Tsutomu Takahashi
Screenplay:
Ryuhei Kitamura
Yūdai Yamaguchi
Isao Kiriyama
Starring Hideo Sakaki
Tak Sakaguchi
Music by Nobuhiko Morino
Daisuke Yano
Distributed by The Klock Worx Company Ltd.
Release date(s) September 12, 2002
Running time 119 min.
Language Japanese

Alive is a 2002 Japanese action/horror film and the fourth film by cult director Ryuhei Kitamura. It is based on the manga ALIVE (published in 1999; Shueisha) by Tsutomu Takahashi and stars Hideo Sakaki as the protagonist, Tenshu.

Hideo Sakaki, who portrayed the villain in Kitamura's previous film, Versus, now plays the hero in this film. Likewise Tak Sakaguchi who was the hero in Versus returns in this film as the villain. This film, which is broken into titled chapters, titles the scene in which the two characters battle as "VERSUS".

Eight other cast members from Versus also appeared in this movie.

Cast

  • Hideo Sakaki as Tenshu Yashiro
  • Ryô as Yurika Saegusa
  • Koyuki as asuka Saegusa
  • Shun Sugata as Matsuda
  • Erika Oda as Misako Hara
  • Tak Sakaguchi as Zeros
  • Jun Kunimura as Kojima
  • Ryushi Mizukami as Warden 1
  • Keita Kimura as Warden 2
  • Minoru Aoki as Warden 3
  • Boba as Hair Cut Guard
  • Takanori Hamachika as Guard 1
  • Makato Kitami as Guard 2
  • Seki Watanabe as Guard 3
  • Suenari Matsubara as Guard 4
  • Minoru Matsumoto as SWAT 1
  • Yuichiro Arai as SWAT 2
  • Kazuhito Ohba as SWAT 3
  • Takehiro Katayama as SWAT 4
  • Motonari Komiya as SWAT 5
  • Hiroyuki Yoshida as SWAT 6
  • Toshinari Horiuchi as SWAT 7
  • Taro Kanazawa as SWAT 8
  • Ryuji Gotoh as SWAT 9
  • Gô Ohara as SWAT 10
  • Kenji Matsuda as SWAT Leader
  • Bengal as Tokutake
  • Tetta Sugimoto as Gondoh

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