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The City of Lost Souls

2000 · 102 min

A restless, grimy crime chase through multicultural Tokyo, mixing doomed romance with sudden bursts of brutal violence.

Tagline: Comes a story of love and violence spanning the globe.
Overview: 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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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
crime
survival
betrayal
violence
Places: big city
sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language strong
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	7
Horror	3
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	5
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: action, crime, drama
Directed by: Takashi Miike
Written by: Seishu Hase, Toshiki Kimura
Starring: Teah, Michele Reis, Patricia Manterola, Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Koji Kikkawa, Ren Osugi, Akaji Maro, Anatoli Krasnov
Music: Koji Endo
Cinematography: Naosuke Imaizumi
Runtime: 102 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, English, Portuguese

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