Japan Synopsis
漂流街 THE HAZARD CITY
“Comes a story of love and violence spanning the globe.”
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.
The 1999–2001 Japan Window
205 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. The City of Lost Souls sits at position #141.
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The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2000s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The City of Lost Souls premiered. 1020 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #3,453 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (25th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.6 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #1,341 of 1,714 (top 78%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Spoken Languages | Mandarin, English, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian |
| Production Companies | Tokuma Shoten, Daiei Film, Tokyo FM, TFC |
| Runtime | 1h 42m |
| Release Date | September 15, 2000 |
| IMDb | tt0246498 |