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Ley Lines is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Takashi Miike with Shō Aikawa

Ley Lines (1999)

Nihon kuroshakai

Ley Lines
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OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Action,    Crime
Rating68% 3.4403953.4403953.4403953.4403953.440395

Ley Lines (Nihon kuroshakai) is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike, and is the third film in his 'Triad Society' trilogy (also known as the Black Society Trilogy), following 1995's Shinjuku Triad Society and 1997's Rainy Dog. 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.

Synopsis

Tokyo. Trois jeunes désoeuvrés et une prostituée tombent dans la délinquance.

Actors

Shō Aikawa

(Ikeda)Naoto Takenaka

(Wong)Kazuki Kitamura

(Ryuichi)Ren Osugi

(Vietnamese Motorbike Smuggler)Tomorowo Taguchi

(Chan)Shun Sugata

(Detective)
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