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BORDER LINE (2003)

1h 58m

Running Time

BORDER LINE (2003)

Name: BORDER LINE
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 2003-06-28

1h 58m

Running Time

Plot.

Three storylines interweave in Border Line. Kurosawa (Murakami Jun) finds himself driving a taciturn young man named Matsuda (Sawaki Tetsu) halfway to Hokkaido, after accidentally knocking him off his bike; their fragile bond can last only so long. The housewife Aikawa Misa (Aso Yumi) tries desperately to hold her family together when her husband gets laid off and her son is so frightened of bullies at school that he throws up in the car; she’s reduced to taking a McJob in a convenience store. And Miyaji (Mitsuishi Ken), who collects debts for a yakuza gang, gets into trouble when his partner Kitajima puts personal need above duty.

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Cast & Crew.

Tetsu Sawaki

Ayaka Maeda

Taro Fujioka

Actor

Jun Murakami

Ken Mitsuishi

Yumi Asou

Kanako Fukaura

Harumi Miyako

Actress

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Yoji Tanaka

Tomomi Miyauchi

Lee Sang-il

Director / Writer

Hajime Matsuura

Writer

Mayumi Amano

Producer

Shin Hayasaka

Cinematographer

Aoyama Masafumi

Editor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
June 28, 2003

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 58m

Genres
Romance Drama

Wiki.

Border Line is a 2002 drama film, and the feature film debut of Korean-Japanese film director Sang-il Lee. It observes the lives of three un-related characters, a son, a father and a mother, each of whom has a troubled family background.

The film is largely a character study, structured in a style of a Robert Altman movie, showing a number of different sub-plots unfold over the course of a few days. The shooting-style adopted is often similar to that of Yasujirō Ozu.

The cast includes Tetsu Sawaki (Shuji Matsuda, the 17-year-old high school student), Yumi Asō (Aikawa, the convenience store clerk), Ken Mitsuishi (the middle-aged yakuza), and Jun Murakami (Kurosawa, the taxi driver).