The City of Lost Souls

Sep 15, 2000

1h 42m

★ 6.1

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.

Genres

Action

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Tokuma Shoten

Daiei Film

Tokyo FM

TFC

The City of Lost Souls Trailers

Cast

Mario

Teah

Kei

Michele Reis

Lucia

Patricia Manterola

Mitsuhiro Oikawa

Fushimi

Koji Kikkawa

Okijima Gang Leader

Ren Osugi

Okijima Gang Member

Akaji Maro

Khodoloskii

Anatoli Krasnov

Rikardo

Sebastian DeVicente

Riku

Terence Yin Chi-Wai

Carlos

Atsushi Okuno

Kuwata

Akira Emoto

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Cast

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