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Alive (live-action movie)

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Alternative title:
Alive - Der Tod ist die bessere Alternative (German)
Смертник (Russian)
アライヴ (Japanese)
Genres: action, drama, horror
Plot Summary: Yashiro Tenshuu killed 5 people, including his girlfriend, and is now on death row. However, a secret government organization is willing to take him off death row if he allows himself to become a test subject to an experiment that requires a killer's intent. (from manga by T Takahashi)
Vintage: 2003-06-21
Premiere date:
2003-06-21 (Japan)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Alive (Blu-ray) 2022-07-05 (from $19.99)
DVD (Region 1)
    Alive (DVD) 2004-11-30 (from $13.72)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Screenplay:
Isao Kiriyama
Ryuhei Kitamura
Yūdai Yamaguchi
Music:
Daisuke Yano
Nobuhiko Morino
Original creator: Tsutomu Takahashi
Producer:
Hidemi Satani
Shūichi Kakesu
Taizō Fukumaki

Action Director: Yuji Shimomura
Cinematography: Takum Furuya
Digital Composition: Takahiro Suzuki
Editing: Shūichi Kakesu
Foley Artist: Mizuki Itō
Production Design: Yūji Hayashida
Sound: Fusao Yuwaki
Sound Effects Editing: Mizuki Itō
Stunts: Gō Ohara
Technical Producer: Manabu Shinoda
Visual Effects: Michal Olague
Visual Supervisor: Takeshi Shin
Hideo Sakaki as Tenshu Yashiro

Erika Oda as Misako Hara
Koyuki as Asuka Saegusa
Ryō as Yurika Saegusa

Ayumi Yoshihara as Researcher 1
Bengal as Tokutake
Gō Ohara as SWAT 10
Gōta Tate as Condemned Criminal 3
Hibiki Izawa as Researcher 2
Hiroyuki Yoshida as SWAT 6
Hitoshi Ozawa as Condemned Criminal 1
Jun Kunimura as Kojima
Jun'ichi Kubozono as Researcher 4
Kazuhito Ohba as SWAT 3
Keita Kimura as Warden 2
Kenji Matsuda as SWAT Leader
Kifofumi Takahashi as Men in suits 2
Makato Kitami as Guard 2
Masami Kobayashi as Men in hell 2
Masataka Takahashi as Men in suits 1
Minoru Aoki as Warden 3
Minoru Matsumoto as SWAT 1
Motonari Komiya as SWAT 5
Naonobu Shibata as Researcher 5
Renji Ishibashi as Chief
Ryuji Gotoh as SWAT 9
Ryūshi Mizukami as Warden 1
Seki Watanabe as Guard 3
Shun Sugata as Matsuda
Shunsuke Matsuoka as Condemned Criminal 2
Suenari Matsubara as Guard 4
Tak Sakaguchi as Zeros
Takanori Hamachika as Guard 1
Takehiro Katayama as SWAT 4
Tarō Kanazawa as SWAT 8
Tetta Sugimoto as Gondoh
Toshinari Horiuchi as SWAT 7
Toyoshi Sawada as Men in hell 1
Yōji Tanaka as Hair Cut Guard
Yūichirō Arai as SWAT 2
Yukihito Tanikado as Researcher 3
Japanese companies
Production:
napalm FiLMS
SUPLEX
special effects: NTT Media Lab
English staff
English companies
(none)
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment (Australia)
Optimum Home Entertainment (United Kingdom)
Tokyo Shock (DVD)
Tubi TV (Streaming)
Licensed by: Media Blasters
English cast
(none)
French staff
French companies
(none)
Distributor: WE Productions
French cast
(none)

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