I just imported my Blogger blog into WordPress and I noticed my second post from August 26, 2007 was about the movie Zebraman.  In that post I mentioned that I would like to watch more Takashi Miike films.  It just so happened that today I watched Dead or Alive, my first Takashi Miike movie since Zebraman.  Since I like Zebraman I thought Dead or Alive would be good, but Dead or Alive is an average movie, period.  That being said it has two craziest, awesomest scenes ever shot on film.  These are the opening and closing scenes.  Everything between is mediocre though the plot is so convoluted I won’t even try to explain it.  I cannot really recommend the movie because of this, but I’m sure Miike fans will want to watch this regardless.  I will leave you with a picture of the protagonist with a Bazooka.