Ley Lines

  • Release Date: 1999-05-22
  • Runtime: 105 Minutes
  • Spoken Languages: ja
  • Vote Count: 55
  • Director: Takashi Miike
  • Overview: 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.
  • Production Companies

    • Daiei Film
    • Daiei Film