Ley Lines
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1hr
45mins
Directed by
Takashi Miike,
Starring
Kazuki Kitamura,
Dan Li,
Michisuke Kashiwaya,
Tomorowo Taguchi
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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.