Kurosen chitai (1960)

Crime

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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Runtime: 80 mins Rating: 7.0

Cast

Shigeru Amachi

Koji Machida

Toshio Hosokawa

Goro Torii

Utako Mitsuya

Misako

Yôko Mihara

Maya

Reiko Seto

Reiko Onuma

Hiroaki Kurahashi

Detective Inoue

Jun Ôtomo

Yukichi Tachibana

Hiroshi Asami

Kayoko (gay boy)

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Crew

Teruo Ishii

Director

Teruo Ishii

Screenplay

Ichirô Miyagawa

Screenplay

Michiaki Watanabe

Original Music Composer

Mitsugu Ôkura

Executive Producer

Jugyo Yoshida

Director of Photography

Kichitarô Shibata

Assistant Director

Keiji Miyazawa

Art Direction

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