Ley Lines

🎭 Genres:Drama, Thriller, Crime

⭐️ Actors:Kazuki Kitamura, Dan Li, Michisuke Kashiwaya, Tomorowo Taguchi, Naoto Takenaka

🌍 Country:Japan

📅 Year:1999

🎬 Director:Takashi Miike

📝 Description: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.