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Ley Lines (1999)

Ley Lines (1999)

Drama Crime Thriller
Release Date: 1999, May 22
Directors: Takashi Miike
Countries: Japan
Production: Daiei Film, Daiei Film, Excellent Films, Excellent Films
Cast: Tetsu Watanabe, Kazuki Kitamura, Shun Sugata, Dan Li, Ren Osugi, Naoto Takenaka, Show Aikawa, Tomorowo Taguchi, Kaei Okina, Ito Yozaburo, Michisuke Kashiwaya, Ryushi Mizukami

Overview:

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.

Keywords:

drug dealer prostitute