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Ley Lines(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-05-22
63%
54 Votes
Time: 1h 45m
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.
Languages: Japanese, Mandarin.
Countries:
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Excellent Films
Movie: Ley Lines
Top 10 Billed Cast
北村一輝
Ryuichi
Dan Li
Anita
田口トモロヲ
Chan
竹中直人
Wong
哀川翔
Ikeda
翁華栄
Pimp
シーザー武志
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Ley Lines
Ley Lines Original Trailer (Takashi Miike, 1999)
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