Black Line
黒線地帯
Rating: 5 · 1960 · Crime · Japan · 1 ч 20 мин
Description
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.
Information
- Original title
- 黒線地帯
- Year
- 1960
- Genre
- Crime
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1 ч 20 мин
- TMDB
- 5
- IMDb
- 5
Director
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
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