Dead or Alive 2: Birds

Dead or Alive 2: Birds
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Directed by	Takashi Miike
Produced by	Yoshihiro Masuda Makoto Okada
Written by	Masa Nakamura
Starring	Show Aikawa Riki Takeuchi
Music by	Chu Ishikawa
Cinematography	Kazunari Tanaka
Release dates	December 2, 2000 (2000-12-02) (Japan) November 11, 2001 (United Kingdom)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Dead or Alive 2: Birds (DEAD OR ALIVE 2 逃亡者) is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. Dead or Alive 2: Birds is unrelated to Dead or Alive (1999) or Dead or Alive: Final (2002) except that all three films have Show Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi in them, and they are all directed by Takashi Miike.

Plot

Two contract killers cross paths on the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decide to team up and use their talents in killing for good... upsetting the crime syndicates they used to work for.

Cast

• Show Aikawa as Mizuki Okamoto
• Riki Takeuchi as Shuuichi Sawada
• Noriko Aota as Kōhei's wife
• Edison Chen as Boo
• Kenichi Endo as Kōhei
• Hiroko Isayama
• Masato as Hoo
• Yuichi Minato as Head of orphanage
• Ren Osugi (credited as Red Ohsugi) as Mizuki's stepfather
• Manzō Shinra
• Tomorowo Taguchi as Man with telescope
• Teah as Woo
• Toru Tezuka
• Shinya Tsukamoto as Magician Higashino
• Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Other credits

• Produced by:
  • Toshiki Kimura: associate producer for Excellent Film
  • Mitsuru Kurosawa: executive producer for Toei Video
  • Yoshihiro Masuda: producer for Daiei
  • Makoto Okada: producer for Toei Video
  • Tsutomu Tsuchikawa: executive producer for Daiei
• Film Editing by: Yasushi Shimamura
• Production Design by: Akira Ishige
• Sound Department: Mitsugu Shiratori (sound)

External links

• Dead or Alive 2: Birds at the Internet Movie Database
• Dead or Alive 2: Birds at AllMovie