About the film
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Black Line
Release Date: January 13, 1960
| Year | : | 1960 |
| Slogan | : | «» |
| Genres | : | Crime |
| Production Companies | : | Shintoho Company |
| Director | : | Teruo Ishii |
| Producers | : | Mitsugu Ôkura |
| Writers | : | Teruo Ishii, Ichirô Miyagawa |
| RunTime | : | 80 mins. |
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.
Main Actors
Shigeru Amachi
Character : Koji Machida
Utako Mitsuya
Character : Misako
Yōko Mihara
Character : Maya
Toshio Hosokawa
Character : Goro Torii
Reiko Seto
Character : Reiko Onuma
Kyôko Yashiro
Character : Chiaki
Junko Uozumi
Character : Kaneko Sano
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Character : Hotel manager
Yuji Munakata
Character : Joe
Jun Ôtomo
Character : Yukichi Tachibana
Masaru Kodaka
Character : Photo seller
Ryuji Moriyama
Character : Taizo
Hiroshi Asami
Character : Kayoko (gay boy)
Miho Jo
Character : Hotel maid Tokiko
Kuniko Yamamura
Character : Kayo
Yoko Nanbara
Character : Emi Hamaguchi
Kyôko Katsura
Character : Kyôko
Keiko Minakami
Character : Singapore (waitress)
Masayo Yoshida
Character : Ranko Kuroki
Masao Takamatsu
Character : Old man at boat store
Yoji Naruto
Character : Sabu
Sôten Kuni
Character : Manager
Daijiro Kikukawa
Character : Namikawa
Tomohiko Ôtani
Character : Old man at mannequin store
Ken Kawahara
Character :
Kazuhiko Saeki
Character :
Shogo Sakane
Character : Gay boy B
Kyoji Murayama
Character : Policeman
Seiji Hara
Character : Grocery store clerk
Takashi Yamaguchi
Character :
Minoru Miyake
Character :
Kôichi Miya
Character : Detective Kondo
Yūzō Harumi
Character : Detective Suzuki
Hiroaki Kurahashi
Character : Detective Inoue
Eisuke Sakauchi
Character :
Kyōko Ōgimachi
Character :
Eiko Wakaroku
Character :
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