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Black Line

Black Line

IMDB:

4.6
Black Line

Released

1/13/1960

Duration

1h 20m

Genre

Crime

Country

Japan

Cast

Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yōko Mihara

Overview

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

Shigeru Amachi

Koji Machida

Shigeru Amachi

Utako Mitsuya

Misako

Utako Mitsuya

Yōko Mihara

Maya

Yōko Mihara

Toshio Hosokawa

Goro Torii

Toshio Hosokawa

Reiko Seto

Reiko Onuma

Reiko Seto

Kyôko Yashiro

Chiaki

Kyôko Yashiro

Junko Uozumi

Kaneko Sano

Junko Uozumi

Hiroshi Ayukawa

Hotel manager

Hiroshi Ayukawa

Yuji Munakata

Joe

Yuji Munakata

Jun Ōtomo

Yukichi Tachibana

Jun Ōtomo

Masaru Kodaka

Photo seller

Masaru Kodaka

Ryuji Moriyama

Taizo

Ryuji Moriyama

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