Ley Lines

Movie
Audience Score
64
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NR 1 hr 45 minCrime, Drama, ThrillerBlack Society Collection PosterPart of Black Society Collection
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.
StarringKazuki KitamuraDan LiMichisuke Kashiwaya
DirectorTakashi Miike

Movie Details

Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Daiei Film, Excellent Films
Ley Lines on the Web:Official Website
Movie Tags:
prostitutedrug dealer

Black Society Collection

After several years spent working almost exclusively in the direct-to-video world of V-cinema in Japan, Takashi Miike announced himself as a world-class filmmaking talent with this trio of thematically-connected, character-centric crime stories about violence, the underworld of Japanese society, families both real and surrogate, and the possibly hopeless task of finding one's place in the world. His first films made specifically for theatrical release, and his first for a major studio, the Black Society Trilogy was the beginning of Miike's mature career as a filmmaker and they remain among the prolific director's finest works.