Black Society watch order
There are 3 Black Society films, about 5 hours in total. The first was released in 1995, the latest in 1999. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.
After several years spent working almost exclusively in the direct-to-video world of V-cinema in Japan, Takashi Miike announced himself as a world-class filmmaking talent with this trio of thematically-connected, character-centric crime stories about violence, the underworld of Japanese society, families both real and surrogate, and the possibly hopeless task of finding one's place in the world. His first films made specifically for theatrical release, and his first for a major studio, the Black Society Trilogy was the beginning of Miike's mature career as a filmmaker and they remain among the prolific director's finest works.
- 1
Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
26 Aug 1995 · 100 min
Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.
- 2
Rainy Dog (1997)
28 Jun 1997 · 95 min
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
- 3
Ley Lines (1999)
22 May 1999 · 105 min
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Jap
Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.