DEAD OR ALIVE
In Tokyo's crime-ridden Shinjuku district, emotionally and financially bankrupt Detective Jojima (Show Aikawa) plays a referee in a gangland turf war pitting the Japanese Yakuza mafia against a bloodthirsty band of Chinese immigrant gangsters. But Jojima's obligation to his terminally ill daughter and ruthless Chinese mobster Ryuichi's (Riki Takeuchi) sentimental devotion to his ersatz family of misfit assassins threatens to add their own corpses to the landslide of fresh bodies littering Tokyo. Miike depicts Dead or Alive's gruesome acts of excess and debasement with shockingly graphic relish, allowing his vision to escalate beyond even a cartoonish level of audacity.

DEAD OR ALIVE 2 (BIRDS)
After Yakuza hitman Mizuki (Sho Aikawa) watches a high-priced target gunned down by another assassin, he combs the underworld in search of clues that will reveal his rival's identity. But when the two executioners meet, they discover they are long-lost childhood friends. Now reunited, Mizuki and his amigo Shuichi (Riki Takeuchi) team up to pay off their spiritual debts while staying one trigger-pull ahead of the Yakuza mobsters and drug triad killers who want them dead. Somehow simultaneously reprising and reversing their roles from the first DOA instalment, Japanese 'V Film' cult actors Aikawa and Takeuchi are joined by Tetsuo the BodyHammer creator Shinyu Tsukamoto in a rare onscreen appearance. Director Miike loads DOA2 with equally rich portions of mayhem and sentiment, creating both a bloodthirsty Asian action film and a lyrical journey of cinematic finesse.

DEAD OR ALIVE 3 (FINAL)
Freely referencing from anime to Huxley's Brave New World, from Blade Runner to Jean Luc Goddard, director Takshi Miike crafts a spectacular conclusion to his wildly successful series. In Yokahama, AD2346, a simmering multiethnic, melting pot ruled by flamboyantly cruel Dictator Woo threatens to boil over. Woo's dystopian vision of a city where procreation is forbidden is desperately resisted by an underworld alliance of crooks and rebels, but brutally enforced by super-cop Honda (Riki Takeuchi). When the uneasy rebels capture Honda's son, the only thing standing between them and Honda's implacable wrath is Ryo (Show Aikawa), an android killing machine with his own deadly agenda.