Black Line

Black Line (1960)


  • Genre: Crime
  • Release Date: 1960-01-13
  • User Rating: 5.5/10 from 4 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 20min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Shintoho Company
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Teruo Ishii
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Summary

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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  • Shigeru Amachi

    as Koji Machida
  • Utako Mitsuya

    as Misako
  • Yōko Mihara

    as Maya
  • Toshio Hosokawa

    as Goro Torii
  • Reiko Seto

    as Reiko Onuma
  • Kyôko Yashiro

    as Chiaki
  • Junko Uozumi

    as Kaneko Sano
  • Hiroshi Ayukawa

    as Hotel manager
  • Yuji Munakata

    as Joe
  • Jun Ōtomo

    as Yukichi Tachibana
  • Masaru Kodaka

    as Photo seller
  • Ryuji Moriyama

    as Taizo
  • Hiroshi Asami

    as Kayoko (gay boy)
  • Miho Jo

    as Hotel maid Tokiko
  • Kuniko Yamamura

    as Kayo
  • Yoko Nanbara

    as Emi Hamaguchi
  • Kyōko Katsura

    as Kyôko
  • Keiko Minakami

    as Singapore (waitress)
  • Masayo Yoshida

    as Ranko Kuroki
  • Masao Takamatsu

    as Old man at boat store
  • Yoji Naruto

    as Sabu
  • Sōten Kuni

    as Manager
  • Daijiro Kikukawa

    as Namikawa
  • Tomohiko Ôtani

    as Old man at mannequin store
  • Ken Kawahara

    as
  • Kazuhiko Saeki

    as
  • Shogo Sakane

    as Gay boy B
  • Kyoji Murayama

    as Policeman
  • Seiji Hara

    as Grocery store clerk
  • Takashi Yamaguchi

    as
  • Minoru Miyake

    as
  • Kôichi Miya

    as Detective Kondo
  • Yūzō Harumi

    as Detective Suzuki
  • Hiroaki Kurahashi

    as Detective Inoue
  • Eisuke Sakauchi

    as
  • Kyōko Ōgimachi

    as
  • Eiko Wakaroku

    as
Directing Teruo Ishii Director
Production Mitsugi Okura Executive Producer
Camera Jugyo Yoshida Director of Photography
Lighting Akira Yaguchi Lighting Technician
Sound Hisao Negishi Sound Recordist
Art Keiji Miyazawa Art Direction
Sound Chumei Watanabe Original Music Composer
Directing Kichitarô Shibata Assistant Director
Editing Hideo Kashima Editor
Writing Ichirō Miyagawa Screenplay
Writing Teruo Ishii Screenplay

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