Movie·1999·1h 45m
Ley Lines
Directed By
Takashi Miike
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
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The Story
Original title: 日本黒社会 LEY LINES
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.
Producer
Toshiki Kimura
Cinematography
Naosuke Imaizumi
Music
Koji Endo
Editor
Yasushi Shimamura
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
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// cast
Cast
Kazuki Kitamura
Ryuichi
Dan Li
Anita
Michisuke Kashiwaya
Shunrei
Tomorowo Taguchi
Chan
Naoto Takenaka
Wong
Show Aikawa
Ikeda
Samy Pop
Barbie
Yukie Itou
Kaei Okina
Pimp
Takeshi Caesar
Ito Yozaburo
SM Man
Ryushi Mizukami
Fake Passport Shop
Ren Osugi
Vietnamese Motorbike Smuggler
Manzo Shinra
Shun Sugata
Detective
Atsushi Okuno
Yokota
Far-Long Oh
Kôji Tsukamoto
Passport Centre Officer
// crew
Crew
Takashi Miike
Director
Yasushi Shimamura
Editor
Toshiki Kimura
Producer, Screenplay
Koji Endo
Original Music Composer
Naosuke Imaizumi
Director of Photography
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