Ley Lines (1999) — crime, drama, thriller film. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Kazuki Kitamura, Dan Li, Michisuke Kashiwaya, Tomorowo Taguchi. This page maps 6 characters and 10 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A visceral chronicle of marginalized youth confronting systemic exploitation while pursuing liberation through escalating criminal defiance.
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action · 6.4/10 · 105 min · 1999
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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