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Takashi Miike

Japan1998 106min 35mm Color

Synopsis

Chuji, a young Japanese man who works in a Yokosuka nightclub, plays the harmonica, and has ambitions to sign a deal with a record company. But Chuji is also a small-time drug dealer, mainly because he needs the money. Matters are complicated when he unwittingly saves the life of an aggressive young yakuza from a rival faction, a man who happens to be a repressed homosexual and takes a liking to Chuji.

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Takashi Miike

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1960. Takashi Miike is a graduate of the Yokohama Academy of Broadcasting and Film. He started his career under Shohei Imamura, Kazuo Kuroki. He made his feature debut it 1995 with . His film includes (1996), (1997), and (1999). Working in a wide span of genres from adolescent films to Yakuza movies fantasy stories His latest films are , and .