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Black Line (1960)

ALL 01/13/1960 (ja) Crime 80 Min
  • Release
    01/13/1960
  • Production
    Shintoho Company
  • Rotten tomato
    55%
  • Original title
    黒線地帯
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Teruo Ishii

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Hideo Kashima

    Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Shigeru Amachi

    Koji Machida

  2. Utako Mitsuya

    Misako

  3. Yōko Mihara

    Maya

  4. Toshio Hosokawa

    Goro Torii

  5. Reiko Seto

    Reiko Onuma

  6. Kyôko Yashiro

    Chiaki

  7. Junko Uozumi

    Kaneko Sano

  8. Hiroshi Ayukawa

    Hotel manager

  9. Yuji Munakata

    Joe

  10. Jun Ōtomo

    Yukichi Tachibana

  11. Masaru Kodaka

    Photo seller

  12. Ryuji Moriyama

    Taizo

  13. Hiroshi Asami

    Kayoko (gay boy)

  14. Miho Jo

    Hotel maid Tokiko

  15. Kuniko Yamamura

    Kayo

  16. Yoko Nanbara

    Emi Hamaguchi

  17. Kyōko Katsura

    Kyôko

  18. Keiko Minakami

    Singapore (waitress)

  19. Masayo Yoshida

    Ranko Kuroki

  20. Masao Takamatsu

    Old man at boat store

  21. Yoji Naruto

    Sabu

  22. Sôten Kuni

    Manager

  23. Daijiro Kikukawa

    Namikawa

  24. Tomohiko Ôtani

    Old man at mannequin store

  25. Ken Kawahara

  26. Kazuhiko Saeki

  27. Shogo Sakane

    Gay boy B

  28. Kyoji Murayama

    Policeman

  29. Seiji Hara

    Grocery store clerk

  30. Takashi Yamaguchi

  31. Minoru Miyake

  32. Kôichi Miya

    Detective Kondo

  33. Yūzō Harumi

    Detective Suzuki

  34. Hiroaki Kurahashi

    Detective Inoue

  35. Eisuke Sakauchi

  36. Kyōko Ōgimachi

  37. Eiko Wakaroku

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 37 , Crews : 11

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Black Line (1960) 80 Min

ALL 01/13/1960 (ja)
Crime
  • Release 01/13/1960
  • Production
    Shintoho Company
  • Original title 黒線地帯
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Teruo Ishii

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Hideo Kashima

    Editor

  4. Producer



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