JAPAN · 2000

The City of Lost Souls

Takashi Miike
Japanese New Wave organized crime cross cultural romance immigrant underworld japanese portuguese diaspora international mob rivalry
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Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.

Year2000
CountryJapan
DirectorTakashi Miike
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