Ley Lines
Nihon kuroshakai
1999, Film, 105 min, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 65
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.
Directed by Takashi Miike
Cast
- Kazuki Kitamura as Ryuichi
- Tomoroo Taguchi as Chan
- Dan Li as Chinese prostitute
- Naoto Takenaka as Wong
- Michisuke Kashiwaya as Shunrei
- Samuel Pop Aning as Barbie
- Shō Aikawa as Ikeda
- Far-Long Oh as Anita's Pimp
- Takeshi Caesar
- Yukie Itou
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