Ley Lines
Drama
Thriller
Crime
1999
105 min
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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.
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"While well executed and with serious thought behind it Ley Lines fails to adequately characterize much of anything. All of the characters, locations and even set pieces feel like cliche or stock versions of themselves. It's a fun little crime drama but lacks the uniqueness to give it much of a lasting impression. In addition I've seen it billed as a horror movie but it has very little in terms of fear looking more at mundane criminal squalor in a matter of fact way."
Aaron Eskenazi
