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Released
2006 · FILM

DOA: Dead or Alive

Four elite fighters—Kasumi, Tina, Helena and Christie—enter a high‑stakes martial‑arts tournament only to discover the organizers conceal a deadly conspiracy they must expose before it destroys them all.

They're the ultimate fighters. They've got the looks. They've got the moves, and the men fall at their feet.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
87 min
ActionAdventureMystery

Synopsis

Four skilled and beautiful rivals at an invitation-only martial-arts tournament—Princess Kasumi, Tina Armstrong, Helena Douglas, and Christie Allen—join forces to confront a sinister threat. Princess Kasumi is an aristocratic warrior trained by martial-arts masters. Tina Armstrong is a wrestling superstar. Helena Douglas is an athlete with a tragic past. Christie Allen earns her keep as a thief and an assassin-for-hire.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 41+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ka Fai CheungShot by Chi Ying ChanScored by Tom HolkenborgDesigned by Sung Pong Choo

Box Office

2006 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$7.6M

Budget$21.0M
Worldwide gross$7.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • D.O.A. - Dead or Alivede
  • Dead or Alivede

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