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Ley Lines
Why this pick
Miike again pairs criminal violence with displaced young men, but trades Rainy Dog’s rain-soaked isolation for a restless, bruised portrait of outsiders trying to belong in Tokyo.
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MOVIE1997 1h 35m JPN
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Its grimy urban underworld, unstable loyalties and abrupt brutality closely echo the raw, morally airless yakuza world that gives Rainy Dog its oppressive force.
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Though far gentler, its nearly wordless central character and patient visual storytelling offer the same sensitivity to silence, marginal lives and fragile human attachment.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film begins with the main character, Yuuji, being fired from his yakuza syndicate. Soon he finds work for another boss solely as a pay-per-hit assassin, killing members of other syndicates. His life starts to become more complicated when an ex-girlfriend or hooker drops his son off at his house. His son, who is mute, begins to follow him, where the boy watches him shoot a man who is having lunch with his wife and infant son. Afterward, the boy follows Yuuji to a whorehouse where he waits outside. While waiting, he eats food from the garbage and befriends a puppy who is chained in the alley.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME