Ley Lines (film)

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name = Ley Lines


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director = Takashi Miike
producer = Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
writer = Ichiro Ryu
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music = Koji Endo
cinematography = Naosuke Imaizumi
editing = Yasushi Shimamura
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country = japan
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imdb_id = 0258766

"Ley Lines" 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.

Cast

*Sho Aikawa
*Samuel Pop Aning
*Yukie Itou
*Michisuke Kashiwaya
*Kazuki Kitamura
*Dan Li as Anita/Chinese prostitute
*Ryuushi Mizukami
*Ren Osugi
*Tomorowo Taguchi
*Naoto Takenaka
*Kôji Tsukamoto
*Hua Rong Weng

Other credits

*Production Design: Akira Ishige
*Sound Department: Yukiya Sato