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Ley Lines (1999)
Directed by Takashi Miike
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.
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Kazuki Kitamura | Dan Li | Michisuke Kashiwaya | Tomorowo Taguchi | Naoto Takenaka | Sho Aikawa | Samuel Pop Aning | Yukie Itou | Hua Rong Weng | Takeshi Caesar | Ito Yozaburo | Ryûshi Mizukami | Ren Osugi | Manzô Shinra | Shun Sugata | Atsushi Okuno | Far-Long Oh | Kôji Tsukamoto | Tetsu Watanabe | Sam Arnold