Movie · Black Society Collection

Ley Lines (1999)

• May 22, 1999
• 1h 45m

• Drama
• Thriller
• Crime
• Action

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.

Director

Takashi Miike

Writers

Toshiki Kimura

Starring

Kazuki Kitamura, Dan Li, Michisuke Kashiwaya