Ley Lines (film)

Ley Lines
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Produced by	Toshiki Kimura[1]
Screenplay by	Ichiro Ryu[1]
Starring	Show Aikawa Samuel Pop Aning Takeshi Caesar Yukie Itou Michisuke Kashiwaya
Music by	Koji Endo[1]
Cinematography	Naosuke Imaizumi[1]
Edited by	Yasushi Shimamura[1]
Production companies	Daiei Excellent Film[1]
Distributed by	Daiei[1]
Release dates	May 22, 1999 (Japan)
Running time	105 minutes[1]
Country	Japan

Ley Lines (Nihon kuroshakai) 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

• Show Aikawa
• Samuel Pop Aning
• Takeshi Caesar
• 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

Release

Ley Lines was released in theatres in Japan on May 22, 1999 in Japan.^[1]

References

Footnotes

1. Mes 2006, p. 389.

Sources

• Mes, Tom (2006). Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike. FAB Press. ISBN 1903254418.

External links

• Ley Lines at the Internet Movie Database