Shangri-La

Shangri-La — Plot

Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.

• Release date
• August 3, 2002
• Runtime
• 104 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama
• Director
• Takashi Miike

Shangri-La — Cast

Show Aikawa Village Headman Shiro Sano Kuwata Yuu Tokui Seisuke Umemoto Midoriko Kimura Fusae

K

Kogan Ashiya Uehara Akaji Maro Ookura Nagashima Takashi Ebata Matsui Yojin Hino Takeda