Black Line

Black Line (1960)

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.

star 5.5 7.1
  • Release Date: 1960-01-13
  • Runtime: 1h 20min
  • Director: Teruo Ishii

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Cast

  • Shigeru Amachi

    Koji Machida

  • Utako Mitsuya

    Misako

  • Yōko Mihara

    Maya

  • Toshio Hosokawa

    Goro Torii

  • Reiko Seto

    Reiko Onuma

  • Kyôko Yashiro

    Chiaki

  • Junko Uozumi

    Kaneko Sano

  • Hiroshi Ayukawa

    Hotel manager

  • Yuji Munakata

    Joe

  • Jun Ōtomo

    Yukichi Tachibana

  • Masaru Kodaka

    Photo seller

  • Ryuji Moriyama

    Taizo

  • Hiroshi Asami

    Kayoko (gay boy)

  • Miho Jo

    Hotel maid Tokiko

  • Kuniko Yamamura

    Kayo

  • Yoko Nanbara

    Emi Hamaguchi

  • Kyōko Katsura

    Kyôko

  • Keiko Minakami

    Singapore (waitress)

  • Masayo Yoshida

    Ranko Kuroki

  • Masao Takamatsu

    Old man at boat store

  • Yoji Naruto

    Sabu

  • Sōten Kuni

    Manager

  • Daijiro Kikukawa

    Namikawa

  • Tomohiko Ôtani

    Old man at mannequin store

  • Ken Kawahara

  • Kazuhiko Saeki

  • Shogo Sakane

    Gay boy B

  • Kyoji Murayama

    Policeman

  • Seiji Hara

    Grocery store clerk

  • Takashi Yamaguchi

  • Minoru Miyake

  • Kôichi Miya

    Detective Kondo

  • Yūzō Harumi

    Detective Suzuki

  • Hiroaki Kurahashi

    Detective Inoue

  • Eisuke Sakauchi

  • Kyōko Ōgimachi

  • Eiko Wakaroku

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