Black Line (1960)
1h 20m
Running Time
January 13, 1960Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Shigeru Amachi
Kôji Machida
Kyōko Katsura
Kyôko
Yōko Mihara
Maya
Toshio Hosokawa
Gorô Torii
Utako Mitsuya
Misako - School Girl
Kyôko Yashiro
Chiaki
Junko Uozumi
Kaneko Sano
Jun Ōtomo
Yûkichi Tachibana - Boss
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Hotel manager
Masayo Yoshida
Ranko Kuroki
Reiko Seto
Reiko ÔNuma
Yuji Munakata
Joe
Masaru Kodaka
Photo seller
Kuniko Yamamura
Kayo
Teruo Ishii
Director
Ryuji Moriyama
Taizo
Hiroshi Asami
Kayoko (gay boy)
Ichirō Miyagawa
Writer
Miho Jo
Hotel maid Tokiko
Chumei Watanabe
Composer
Yoko Nanbara
Emi Hamaguchi
Keiji Miyazawa
ProductionDesigner
Keiko Minakami
Singapore (waitress)
Masao Takamatsu
Old man at boat store
Yoji Naruto
Sabu
Sôten Kuni
Manager
Daijiro Kikukawa
Namikawa
Tomohiko Ôtani
Old man at mannequin store
Shogo Sakane
Gay boy B
Kyoji Murayama
Policeman
Seiji Hara
Grocery store clerk
Kôichi Miya
Detective Kondo
Details.
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