Movie: Black Line

Top 10 Billed Cast

Shigeru Amachi
天知茂

Koji Machida

Utako Mitsuya
三ツ矢歌子

Misako

Yōko Mihara
三原葉子

Maya

Toshio Hosokawa
細川俊夫

Goro Torii

Reiko Seto
Reiko Seto

Reiko Onuma

Kyôko Yashiro
Kyôko Yashiro

Chiaki

Junko Uozumi
魚住純子

Kaneko Sano

Hiroshi Ayukawa
鮎川浩

Hotel manager

Yuji Munakata
Yuji Munakata

Joe

Jun Ōtomo
大友純

Yukichi Tachibana

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1960-01-13

  • Average

    4.6

  • Rating:

    2.3 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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