Movie · 1999

Ley Lines

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Diasporic alienation Assimilation anxiety Urban underworld Marginalized outsiders Bleak crime thriller Social realist

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Release
1999
Runtime
105 min

Synopsis

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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