Takashi MIIKE 三池崇史
The City Of Lost Souls
Nippon Cinema ª
Tokyo is seething like you've rarely seen - Yakuza, the Triads, the world of Brazilian immigrants, and in the eye of the hurricane a Chinese-Brazilian lovers and a Matrix-style cockfight: Brazilian Mario saves his Chinese girlfriend Kei from deportation in a furious action kick-off. Now the two are stuck in the Brazilian community of Tokyo on their escape and urgently need money. Mario and Kei procure it for themselves and thus trigger a gang war, which makes the Tokyo underworld baring its teeth. And so their dream of sunny freedom turns into a bizarre nightmare that ends in a bloody showdown in the dark street canyons of Shinjuku. THE CITY OF LOST SOULS is not afraid of poses or absurd action - the main thing is that the visual intoxication carries you away. Takashi MIIKE unleashes a high-speed fireworks display on the audience, in which nothing is meant seriously and everything is set to full throttle.
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The City Of Lost Souls (NC 2002)
Japan 2000
105 minutes
Director
Takashi MIIKE
Script
Ryu ICHIRO based on a novel by Seishu HASE
Cinematography
Naosuke IMAIZUMI
Music
Koji ENDO
Production
Daiei
World sales
Daiei
Cast
Teah, Michelle Reis, Patricia Manterola, Koji KIKKAWA, Mitsuhiro OIKAWA, Sebastian DeVincente
About Takashi MIIKE
三池崇史
Takashi MIIKE was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1960. During his studies at Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film, one of his teachers was famous director Shohei IMAMURA. Since his feature debut LADY HUNTER in 1991, MIIKE has created more than 100 films and TV series. Nippon Connection has kept a close eye on his career for almost 20 years, having screened his films ICHI THE KILLER (2001 / NC ’02), THE CITY OF LOST SOULS (2000 / NC ’02), THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS (2001 / NC ’03), LESSON OF THE EVIL (2012 / NC ’14 and NC ’20), and OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (2014 / NC ’15).