Riki Takeuchi

Beginning with an explosive, six-minute montage of sex, drugs and violence, and ending with a phallus-headed battle robot taking flight, Takashi Miike's unforgettable Dead or Alive Trilogy features many of the director's most outrageous moments set alongside some of his most dramatically moving scenes. Made between 1999 and 2002, the Dead or Alive films cemented Miike's reputation overseas as one of the most provocative enfants terrible of Japanese cinema, yet also one of its most talented and innovative filmmakers.In Dead or Alive, tough gangster Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi) and his ethnically Chinese gang make a play to take over the drug trade in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by massacring the competition. But he meets his match in detective Jojima (Show Aikawa), who will do everything to stop them.

When his beloved boss is murdered, a dangerous young yakuza cuts a path of vengeance directly through two clans of the Japanese mafia.

Following a heartbreak, a moody biker meets a free-spirited girl while traveling through her rural hometown and ignites her interest in motorcycles.

A high school student with a double life in the underworld plots revenge against his Yakuza mobster father for the murder of his beloved brother.