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Ley Lines

Ley Lines

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 22, 1999

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Drama, Thriller, Crime

User Score

64%

Original Title

日本黒社会 LEY LINES

Production Companies

Daiei Film, Excellent Films

Director

Takashi Miike

Description

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.