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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.
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Daiei Film, Excellent Films
Original Title
日本黒社会 LEY LINES
Original Language
Japanese
Keywords
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 thematicall...
Cast
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Kazuki Kitamura
Ryuichi
D
Dan Li
Anita
M
Michisuke Kashiwaya
Shunrei
T
Tomorowo Taguchi
Chan
N
Naoto Takenaka
Wong
S
Show Aikawa
Ikeda
S
Samy Pop
Barbie
K
Kaei Okina
Pimp
T
Takeshi Caesar
Y
Yozaburo Ito
SM Man
R
Ryushi Mizukami
Fake Passport Shop
R
Ren Osugi
Vietnamese Motorbike Smuggler
M
Manzo Shinra
S
Shun Sugata
Detective
A
Atsushi Okuno
Yokota
K
Kôji Tsukamoto
Passport Centre Officer
T
Tetsu Watanabe
Kondo
