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Black Line
Black Line

Black Line

1960

5.5

Categories:

  • Crime

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.

Teruo Ishii

Director, Screenplay

Cast:

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  • Shigeru Amachi

    Shigeru Amachi

    Koji Machida
  • Utako Mitsuya

    Utako Mitsuya

    Misako
  • Yōko Mihara

    Yōko Mihara

    Maya
  • Toshio Hosokawa

    Toshio Hosokawa

    Goro Torii
  • Reiko Seto

    Reiko Seto

    Reiko Onuma
  • Kyôko Yashiro

    Kyôko Yashiro

    Chiaki