Black Line

Black Line

1960
1h 20m
4.6

4.6/10

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Crime
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.

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Language: JA

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Production Information

Production Companies
Shintoho Company
Production Countries
Japan
Spoken Languages
Japanese

Keywords

prostitute yakuza japanese noir

Quick Facts

Original Title 黒線地帯
Release Date January 13, 1960
Status Released
Language JA
IMDb ID tt0142489

Cast

Shigeru Amachi
Shigeru Amachi

Koji Machida

Utako Mitsuya
Utako Mitsuya

Misako

Yōko Mihara
Yōko Mihara

Maya

Toshio Hosokawa
Toshio Hosokawa

Goro Torii

Reiko Seto
Reiko Seto

Reiko Onuma

Kyôko Yashiro
Kyôko Yashiro

Chiaki

Junko Uozumi
Junko Uozumi

Kaneko Sano

Hiroshi Ayukawa
Hiroshi Ayukawa

Hotel manager

Yuji Munakata
Yuji Munakata

Joe

Jun Ōtomo
Jun Ōtomo

Yukichi Tachibana

Masaru Kodaka
Masaru Kodaka

Photo seller

Ryuji Moriyama
Ryuji Moriyama

Taizo

Key Crew

Teruo Ishii
Director
Mitsugi Okura
Executive Producer
Ichirō Miyagawa
Screenplay
Teruo Ishii
Screenplay