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The City of Lost Souls
JAPAN · 2000

The City of Lost Souls

Takashi Miike
organized crime cross-cultural romance immigrant underworld Japanese-Portuguese diaspora international mob rivalry
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Synopsis

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.

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