Dan Li, Hua Rong Weng, Kazuki Kitamura, Michisuke Kashiwaya, Naoto Takenaka ...( see more  see more... ) , Sho Aikawa

Bored with suburban life and looking to pursue their dreams, three Chinese-born teens have no idea how harsh the big city can be until they travel to Tokyo, where their hopes are dashed when a wily pr...( read more  read more... )ostitute robs them blind. Broke, discouraged and facing racism at every turn, they begin plotting an audacious heist to escape Tokyo for a better life in this final installment of director Takashi Miike's Black Society trilogy.

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Directed by: Takashi Miike

Release Date: May 22, 1999

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DVD Release Date: April 12, 2005

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  • September 16, 2008
    Ley Lines concerns a trio of small town half-Chinese boys who decide to run away from their rural backwater and head for the bright lights of Tokyo, only to find squalor and degradation in its seedy underbelly. Befriending a local prostitute they hatch a scheme to rob a gangster ...( read more)to get the money to pay for passage away from Japan. This is one of Miike's more conventional movies, but it still contains many of his trademark themes; he certainly pulls no punches when it comes to depicting sex, violence and of course, sexual violence, and as such it can make extremely grim viewing. The title "Ley Lines" is a rather ironic one as they are mystical lines of convergence, whereas I think Miike what was trying to say was that all of the people inhabiting this twilight world could not help but continually run into each other, either as perpetrator of crime or victim because they were all ultimately trapped within this ugly twilight world. If you have the stomach for its more extreme moments it's a rewarding film, but it certainly won't be to more mainstream tastes.
  • March 4, 2009
    Easily the best of the Black society trilogy. This one had the best story line along with the best characters that made this movie both interesting and fun to watch. Obviously, coming from Takashi Miike, this film was conversial. The other reason I think this is great is because ...( read more)of how it ends the trilogy and shows throughout the film that Takashi Miike really made progress with the more films he made. He came from being an ok filmmaker to a great one and this trilogy defently shows his progression. Now this film is a fun watch, its nothing I would call amazing, but if your a Takashi Miike fan, you know films like Dead or Alive, Audition, Ichi The Killer, Sukiyaki Western Django, and many other movies afterwards ended up being anywhere from really good to fantastic.
  • December 27, 2007
    Third and final installment of the Black Society trilogy.
  • July 27, 2007
    Pretty much every aspect of this movie is outstanding. The last shot is one of the best things ever.

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