Drama, Thriller, Crime
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Or (My Treasure)
Irina Palm
Angel
Lemming
Vivre Sa Vie
Jules and Jim
Kid Cannabis
Believer
Go
Half Baked
Menace II Society
Chopper
Elite Squad
Harsh Times
Prostitute
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Brick
Supermarket
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Traffic
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 2000
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.Memoirs of a Geisha
IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 2005
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.Or (My Treasure)
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2004
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow.Irina Palm
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 2007
Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. When one last chance appears, but money is desperately short, Maggie acts to raise the cash in a fashion that surprises everyone but her.Angel
IMDB 6 | Apr , 1984
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.Lemming
IMDB 6.6 | May , 2005
After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...Vivre Sa Vie
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 1962
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.Jules and Jim
IMDB 7.6 | Jan , 1962
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.Kid Cannabis
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 2014
An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.Believer
IMDB 7.2 | May , 2018
After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterious kingpin of a major drug cartel.Go
IMDB 7 | Apr , 1999
A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.Half Baked
IMDB 6.3 | Jan , 1998
Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.Menace II Society
IMDB 7.5 | May , 1993
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.Chopper
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 2000
The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.Elite Squad
IMDB 8.1 | Oct , 2007
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.Harsh Times
IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 2005
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging out and making cash from small heists, while trying to get a law enforcement job so he can marry his Mexican girlfriend.Prostitute
IMDB 5.6 | Apr , 1980
The tale of two women: Sandra, an ambitious but naive Birmingham working girl who moves to London with the hope of securing wealthier patrons, and Louise, her social worker friend, who is fighting to change the antiquated and hypocritical prostitution laws. As both strive to achieve their goals, a cold dose of reality dashes their hopes, and the built-in biases against women in society are unmasked.Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 1995
Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.Brick
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2005
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.Supermarket
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1974
Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.