Ley Lines(日本黒社会 LEY LINES)
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Japan · 1999
1h 45m
Director Takashi Miike
Starring Kazuki Kitamura, Dan Li, Michisuke Kashiwaya, Tomorowo Taguchi
Genre Drama, Thriller, Crime
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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.
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