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Black Line

01/13/1960

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1hr 20min

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Crime

STORY

Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Shigeru Amachi
  • Utako Mitsuya
  • Yōko Mihara
  • Toshio Hosokawa
  • Reiko Seto

    Directors

  • Teruo Ishii
  • Kichitarō Shibata

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Shintoho Company

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese

Cast

Shigeru Amachi

Koji Machida

Utako Mitsuya

Misako

Yōko Mihara

Maya

Toshio Hosokawa

Goro Torii

Reiko Seto

Reiko Onuma

Kyôko Yashiro

Chiaki

Junko Uozumi

Kaneko Sano

Hiroshi Ayukawa

Hotel manager

Yuji Munakata

Joe

Jun Ōtomo

Yukichi Tachibana

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