The ace cop of a totalitarian police force and a drifting android play their parts in a post-apocalyptic society. They are destined to fight. Their encounter will change them forever.

Review:
Although Takashi Miike’s sardonic science-fiction spoof ”Dead or Alive: Final” bills itself as the last installment of a trilogy, its story is only tangentially related to the first two parts. That’s not surprising when you consider that Mr. Miike, the prolific Japanese director with an ardent cult following, is credited with having completed no fewer than 12 films in the last two years. The home-movie crudeness of ”Dead or Alive: Final” indicates it was made on the cheap with minimal preparation.

The story is set in Yokohama in the year 2346, when human beings and androids coexist uneasily under a dictatorship presided over by Woo (Richard Cheung), who has decreed that birth control be mandatory. Woo appears to be in love with a young male trumpet player, who follows him around serenading him lyrically on his horn.

The dictator’s enforcer, Honda (Riki Takeuchi), is an android who resembles an Elvis impersonator and who, despite his mechanical origins, develops human feelings and is revealed to have a son.

Opposition to the birth-control decrees has coalesced into a guerrilla movement led by Fong (Terence Yin) and his girlfriend, Jyun (Josie Ho). After several of the rebels die in a battle with government forces, a swashbuckling android drifter, Ryo (Show Aikawa), joins the resistance. Eventually Honda and Ryo confront each other in a flashy martial arts showdown that culminates with a robotic homosexual copulation.

Alternating between facetious comic parody and pulp melodrama, this smart-aleck movie, which opens today in Manhattan, tosses around some intriguing questions about the difference between human and android life. It makes the most of cheap special effects that include recurrent images of androids frozen in crackling, lightning-ringed electrical fields.

Mr. Miike isn’t always this crude. Anyone who has seen his elegantly scary film ”Audition,” in which a psychotically vengeful woman uses acupuncture as a weapon of torture, knows that the director can be a virtuoso of transfixing horror.

— New York Times.

dead.or.alive.final.2002.720p.bluray.x264-usury.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 29mn
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Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
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Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch 24bit FLAC

https://nitro.download/view/B517543D4B5D2CB/dead.or.alive.final.2002.720p.bluray.x264-usury.mkv

Language(s):Japanese, Cantonese
Subtitles:English (muxed), Japanese (hardcoded for the Cantonese parts)

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A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.

Rainy.Dog.1997.576p.BDRip.x264.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 34 min
Size: 	2.64 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x554 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 560 kb/s
BPP: 	0.262
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 297 kb/s (TVBR q127)
#2:  	English 1.0ch AAC LC @ 77.2 kb/s (Audio commentary 2004 by Miike biographer Tom Mes)
#3:  	English 1.0ch AAC LC @ 77.4 kb/s (Audio commentary 2016 by Miike biographer Tom Mes)

https://nitro.download/view/E2A9DB3A860FB90/Rainy.Dog.1997.576p.BDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese, Mandarin, Min Nan
Subtitles:English, Chinese

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Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.

2.27GB | 1h 38m | 1440×108 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A31BFA166D4E776/The.Cold.Blooded.Trap.1998.1080i.HDTV.DD+2.0.H.264.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/f6c06e679054da23db634e257629c8c7/The.Cold.Blooded.Trap.1998.1080i.HDTV.DD_2.0.H.264.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English,Japanese

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Two wives of gangsters come together to avenge the deaths of their men.

2.05GB | 1h 56m | 690×362 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A3A6807C2F12422/Yakuza.Ladies.The.Final.Battle.1990.DVDRip.x264-PTer.mkv

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:English,Chinese

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Quote:
While it has been reported on several anime news sites that the newest Takashi Miike film is based on the Hashida Yukari “boy’s love” manga, WARU, the live action film is actually based on a popular 70s manga of the same title. Japanese sources clearly credit Hisao Maki’s dramatic action manga, WARU — an edgy action-packed tale of outlaw swordsman Youji Himuro — as the story on which the film is based.

1.35GB | 1h 23m | 708×398 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6F43A2450C06A6C/Waru_-_2006_-_Takashi_Miike.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Italian, Portuguese

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Midnight Eye review:
Serpent’s Path and its companion piece Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi) both start from the same premise: a man taking revenge for the murder of a child. Kurosawa used this premise as the jumping-off point for the two films rather than their definition, resulting in a pair of works which are not so much occupied with revenge, but with the mental processes of human beings in situations that have placed them outside everyday life.

As Serpent’s Path opens we see two men, named Nijima (Kurosawa regular Sho Aikawa) and Miyashita (Teruyuki Kagawa), drive their car to an abandoned warehouse on the edge of town. Out of the trunk they drag a man, who they take with them into the building and chain to a wall. Miyashita is out for revenge against the killers of his eight-year old daughter. Nijima, a schoolteacher by trade, is helping him, though exactly why and how these two men decided to team up remains unclear. They proceed to subtly torment their victim, a low-level yakuza, into a confession. Miyashita, himself a former yakuza, is grief stricken and about to lose his sanity altogether. He laments over a perpetually looping extract of home video footage of his daughter, which is played on a tv set in front of their captive. Nijima on the other hand is calm and collected, his detached air of professionalism keeping Miyashita’s smouldering rage at bay.

But the confession they hope for doesn’t come. Instead they get the name of another possible culprit who ends up in the same situation. He in turn gives them the name of another and pretty soon the two avengers find themselves in more trouble than they bargained for and nowhere nearer the identity of the actual murderer.

1.16GB | 1h 25mn | 832×468 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/B9AE5CCB3A052FB/Hebi.no.michi.AKA.Serpents.Path.%28Kurosawa.-.1998%29.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/CB855B8FBCA2FE1/Hebi.no.michi.AKA.Serpents.Path.%28Kurosawa.-.1998%29.part2.rar

Language(s)Japanese
Subtitles:English

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Quote:
Tough gangster Ryuichi and his ethnically Chinese gang make a play to take over the drug trade in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district by massacring the competition. He meets his match in Detective Jojima, who will do everything to stop them.

+Commentary by Miike biographer Tom Mes

3.03GB | 1h 48m | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/EED51B7B26C7694/Dead.or.Alive.1999.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv
or
https://tezfiles.com/file/fa9f9253ea873/Dead.or.Alive.1999.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

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