Black Line
- 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.
Keywords
- yakuza
- prostitute
- japanese noir
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 13, 1960
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Shintoho Company
- Cast
- Toshio Hosokawa,Yoko Nanbara,Daijiro Kikukawa,Sōten Kuni,Hiroshi Asami,Hiroaki Kurahashi,Seiji Hara,Yōko Mihara,Miho Jo,Kazuhiko Saekiand 27 more
- Director
- Teruo Ishii
- Writer
- Teruo Ishii,Ichirō Miyagawa
- Producer
- Mitsugi Okura
- Cinematography
- Jugyo Yoshida
- Music
- Chumei Watanabe
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0142489