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Ley Lines

Not Rated Drama Thriller Crime

Starring: Kazuki Kitamura, Dan Li, Michisuke Kashiwaya, Tomorowo Taguchi, Naoto Takenaka

Writer: Toshiki Kimura

Release Date:
May 22, 1999
Ratings:
6.3 / 10
Director:
Takashi Miike
Companies:
Daiei Film

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.