Black Line

Black Line

Release date : January 13, 1960
Runtime : 1h 20m
Countries of origin : Japan /
Original Language : Japanese /
Director : Teruo Ishii /
Production companies : Shintoho Company /
January 13, 1960 1h 20m Japan Crime Japanese More
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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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Shigeru Amachi
Koji Machida
Toshio Hosokawa
Goro Torii
Reiko Seto
Reiko Onuma
Junko Uozumi
Kaneko Sano
Hiroshi Ayukawa
Hotel manager
Jun Ōtomo
Yukichi Tachibana
Masaru Kodaka
Photo seller
Hiroshi Asami
Kayoko (gay boy)
Miho Jo
Hotel maid Tokiko
Yoko Nanbara
Emi Hamaguchi
Keiko Minakami
Singapore (waitress)

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  • title:Black Line
  • status:Released
  • Release date: 1960
  • Runtime:1h 20m
  • Genres: Crime ·
  • Countries of origin: Japan ·
  • Original Language: Japanese ·
  • Director: Teruo Ishii /
  • Writers: Teruo Ishii · Ichirō Miyagawa ·
  • Production companies: Shintoho Company ·
  • 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.
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