Black Line (1960)
Black Line (1960) - Crime Movies 80 minutes. 黑線地帶, The Dark Region, Black Line Zone. 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. prostitute, yakuza
Released: Jan 13, 1960
Runtime: 80 minutes
Genre: Crime
Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Utako Mitsuya, Yōko Mihara, Toshio Hosokawa, Reiko Seto, Kyôko Yashiro
Crew: Teruo Ishii (Director), Jugyo Yoshida (Director of Photography), Kichitarô Shibata (Assistant Director), Keiji Miyazawa (Art Direction), Hisao Negishi (Sound Recordist), Mitsugi Okura (Executive Producer)