2000 · crime · action · romance
The City of Lost Souls
Directed by Takashi Miike1h 42m2000
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.
Our read: The City of Lost Souls (2000) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive crime · action · romance entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured crime / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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