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A life worse than death.Plot:
After survivng his own execution, Tenshu choses to be subjected to the bizarre experiments of the prison officials. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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Pretty good. I enjoyed it. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Hideo Sakaki | ... | Tenshu Yashiro |
| Ryô | ... | Yurika Saegusa |
 | Koyuki | ... | Asuka Saegusa |
| Shun Sugata | ... | Matsuda |
| Erika Oda | ... | Misako Hara |
| Tak Sakaguchi | ... | Zeros |
| Jun Kunimura | ... | Kojima |
| Ryushi Mizukami | ... | Warden 1 |
| Keita Kimura | ... | Warden 2 |
| Minoru Aoki | ... | Warden 3 |
| Boba | ... | Hair Cut Guard |
| Takanori Hamachika | ... | Guard 1 |
| Makato Kitami | ... | Guard 2 |
| Seki Watanabe | ... | Guard 3 |
| Suenari Matsubara | ... | Guard 4 |
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1.85 : 1 moreFun Stuff
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Factual errors: When Takutake shoots Zeros after he is defeated, you can clearly hear the sound of a shell casing of a pistol hitting the ground. As Takutake is using a revolver, which does not eject spent shells after each shot, this would make no sense. moreFAQ
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Alive
Alive is a very entertaining SCI-FI movie from Japan. I have noticed a lot of disappointed film geeks who loved Versus this director's debut film or his third film Azumi. I have heard they are blood drenched films with swords and zombies and all kinds of goodies. Frankly I went to the video store to get Versus but I am just fine with Alive.
If you are looking for beginning to end wall to wall action then Alive is not your pick. There is plenty of action however it comes as pay-off for a whole hour of character driven build-up. Personally I think it is well done and worth it.
Of course some of the plot is silly as with many SCI-Fi action films and I think the subtitles using the term foreign object could have replaced with parasite for greater effect. This film is brutal when it needs to be so faint of heart need not apply.
They kept the budget down by for the most part confining all the action to one underground building(taking a cue from the cube) but the film doesn't suffer for it. Another bonus for this film is intense gothic imagines that are done with great artistic flair during the many Flashbacks and dream sequences.
Rent this!