Ley Lines (film)

Ley Lines
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Produced by	Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
Written by	Ichiro Ryu
Music by	Kōji Endō
Cinematography	Naosuke Imaizumi
Edited by	Yasushi Shimamura
Running time	105 minutes
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

Other credits

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

External links

• Ley Lines at the Internet Movie Database