TMDb6.4 / 10

Ley Lines (1999)

Name: Ley Lines
Director: Takashi Miike
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Action
Released: 1999-05-22
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Kazuki Kitamura, Dan Li, Michisuke Kashiwaya, Tomorowo Taguchi, Naoto Takenaka

105 min · Japan · Dir. Takashi Miike

Drama Thriller Crime Action 1999 movies

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.