Black Line (1960)
黒線地帯
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.
- Date of release
- 1960-01-13
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Crime
- Director
- Teruo Ishii
- Collection
- Chitai collection
Casting
- 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
- Masaru Kodaka — Photo seller
- Ryuji Moriyama — Taizo
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