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Black Line( 1960)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Shigeru Amachi

      Koji Machida

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      Utako Mitsuya

      Misako

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      Yōko Mihara

      Maya

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      Toshio Hosokawa

      Goro Torii

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      Reiko Seto

      Reiko Onuma

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      Kyôko Yashiro

      Chiaki

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      Junko Uozumi

      Kaneko Sano

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      Hiroshi Ayukawa

      Hotel manager

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      Yuji Munakata

      Joe

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      Jun Ōtomo

      Yukichi Tachibana

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      Masaru Kodaka

      Photo seller

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      Ryuji Moriyama

      Taizo

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      Hiroshi Asami

      Kayoko (gay boy)

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      Miho Jo

      Hotel maid Tokiko

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      Kuniko Yamamura

      Kayo

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      Yoko Nanbara

      Emi Hamaguchi

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      Kyōko Katsura

      Kyôko

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      Keiko Minakami

      Singapore (waitress)

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      Masayo Yoshida

      Ranko Kuroki

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      Masao Takamatsu

      Old man at boat store

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      Yoji Naruto

      Sabu

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      Sōten Kuni

      Manager

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      Daijiro Kikukawa

      Namikawa

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      Tomohiko Ôtani

      Old man at mannequin store

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      Ken Kawahara

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      Kazuhiko Saeki

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      Shogo Sakane

      Gay boy B

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      Kyoji Murayama

      Policeman

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      Seiji Hara

      Grocery store clerk

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      Takashi Yamaguchi

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      Minoru Miyake

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      Kôichi Miya

      Detective Kondo

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      Yūzō Harumi

      Detective Suzuki

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      Hiroaki Kurahashi

      Detective Inoue

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      Eisuke Sakauchi

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      Kyōko Ōgimachi

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      Eiko Wakaroku

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Keywords

    • prostitute
    • yakuza
    • japanese noir