Black Line
Black Line

Storyline

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.
    Released
    1/13/1960
    Runtime
    1h 20min
    Director
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    Japanese
    Production
    Shintoho Company
Cast
Shigeru Amachi
Shigeru Amachi
Koji Machida
Utako Mitsuya
Utako Mitsuya
Misako
Yōko Mihara
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
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
Sôten Kuni
Manager
Daijiro Kikukawa
Namikawa
Tomohiko Ôtani
Old man at mannequin store
Ken Kawahara
Acting
Kazuhiko Saeki
Acting
Shogo Sakane
Gay boy B
Kyoji Murayama
Policeman
Seiji Hara
Grocery store clerk
Takashi Yamaguchi
Acting
Minoru Miyake
Acting
Kôichi Miya
Detective Kondo
Yūzō Harumi
Detective Suzuki
Hiroaki Kurahashi
Detective Inoue
Eisuke Sakauchi
Acting
Kyōko Ōgimachi
Kyōko Ōgimachi
Acting
Eiko Wakaroku
Acting
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