JediIgor:"Actually, it seems to me like assassination (dead or alive) is a lot easier than abduction (alive) for the bounty hunters. If you want to get rid of the enemy character, just put a hole in his head. If you want to capture him you have to go through the trouble of capturing him, making sure he doesn't escape, bringing him to the Empire, etc." Indeed, assasination is a much comfortable sollution. But you can't assasinate Solo, Palpy or Luke, cuz they are key characters. They cannot be killed, because of the programming. I haven't seen that film from him. But I saw Ran (chaos). It's a masterpiece too. There are superb scenes of how the samurai had to fight their battles...