Ley Lines (1999 film)
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| Directed by | Takashi Miike |
| Produced by | Tsutomu Tsuchikawa |
| Written by | Ichiro Ryu |
| Music by | Koji Endo |
| Cinematography | Naosuke Imaizumi |
| Editing by | Yasushi Shimamura |
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Ley Lines is a 1999 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Other credits
- Production Design: Akira Ishige
- Sound Department: Yukiya Sato
