Ley Lines
MovieTitle | 日本黒社会 LEY LINES |
User score | 6.4 |
Release date | May 22, 1999 |
Genre | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
Director | Takashi Miike |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Daiei Film, Excellent Films |
Run time | 105 min. |
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.