Black Line (1960)
黒線地帯
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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| Country | Stream | Rent | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | — | Apple TV | — |
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What is Black Line about?
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. Black Line is a Crime movie, released on 1960-01-13, runtime 80 minutes.
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Directed by
Teruo Ishii
Cast
- Shigeru Amachi as Koji Machida
- Utako Mitsuya as Misako
- Yōko Mihara as Maya
- Toshio Hosokawa as Goro Torii
- Reiko Seto as Reiko Onuma
- Kyôko Yashiro as Chiaki
- Junko Uozumi as Kaneko Sano
- Hiroshi Ayukawa as Hotel manager
- Yuji Munakata as Joe
- Jun Ōtomo as Yukichi Tachibana
- Masaru Kodaka as Photo seller
- Ryuji Moriyama as Taizo
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