Ley Lines (1999)

Nihon kuroshakai

105 min★ 6.9 · 1,946 votes

• Crime
• Drama
• Thriller

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.

Release date

May 22, 1999

Country of origin

Japan