Alive
2002 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments. He choses the latter and is put in a cell with a rapist and a woman who's infected with a taint that transports from person to person during extreme anger. The taint is transferred to Tenshu and he must now deal with the military who has interrupted the experiment to obtain it.
Direction Ryûhei Kitamura
Cast Hideo Sakaki · Ryo · Koyuki · Shun Sugata · Erika Oda · Tak Sakaguchi · Jun Kunimura · Ryuushi Mizukami · Keita Kimura · Minoru Aoki · Yoji Tanaka · Takanori Hamachika
Soundtrack Nobuhiko Morino · Daisuke Yano
Screenplay Ryûhei Kitamura · Yudai Yamaguchi · Isao Kiriyama · Tsutomu Takahashi
Cinematography Takumi Furuya
Original title Alive
5.3
58 votes (FilmAffinity)
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