The City of Lost Souls

The City of Lost Souls
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Cinematography	Naosuke Imaizumi
Edited by	Yasushi Shimamura
Music by	Kōji Endō
Release date	September 15, 2000 (Toronto International Film Festival)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	¥2,000,000

The City of Lost Souls (Japanese: 漂流街, Hepburn: Hyôryû-gai, also known as The City of Strangers and The Hazard City) is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike.

Plot

Japanese-Brazilian Mario and girlfriend Kei are about to leave Japan for Australia with the aid of their fake passports but the Chinese mafia boss Ko has his eyes set on Kei and is not going to lose her in any way so he sends Riku to stop them. Another mafia member, Fushimi, holds Mario's former lover's foster daughter hostage so Mario returns to Tokyo to save her.

Cast

• Teah as Mario
• Michelle Reis as Kei
• Patricia Manterola as Lucia
• Mitsuhiro Oikawa as Ko
• Koji Kikkawa as Fushimi
• Ren Osugi
• Akaji Maro
• Anatoli Krasnov as Khodoloskii
• Sebastian DeVicente as Rikardo
• Terence Yin as Riku
• Atsushi Okuno as Carlos
• Akira Emoto as Kuwata
• Eugene Nomura as Yamazaki
• Marcio Rosario as Sanchez
• Ryuushi Mizukami as Ide
• Takeshi Nakajima
• Tokitoshi Shiota as Beaten chicken owner

Other credits

• Writing credits:
  • Hase Seishu - novel
  • Ichiro Ryu
• Produced by:
  • Kazunari Hashiguchi - producer
  • Toshiki Kimura - producer
  • Yasuyoshi Tokuma - executive producer
  • Tsutomu Tsuchikawa - planner: Daiei
  • Hiroshi Yamamoto - producer
• Casting: Donna Brower
• Production Design: Akira Ishige
• Art Direction: Reiko Kobayashi
• Assistant Director: Masato Tanno
• US set decorator: Isabelle Stamper
• Sound Department: Kenji Shibazaki - sound

External links

• The City of Lost Souls at IMDb
• The City of Lost Souls at Rotten Tomatoes
• The City of Lost Souls at Metacritic