Black Line by Teruo Ishii
4.60
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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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
Hiroshi Asami as Kayoko (gay boy)
Miho Jo as Hotel maid Tokiko
Kuniko Yamamura as Kayo
Yoko Nanbara as Emi Hamaguchi
Kyōko Katsura as Kyôko
Keiko Minakami as Singapore (waitress)
Masayo Yoshida as Ranko Kuroki
Masao Takamatsu as Old man at boat store
Yoji Naruto as Sabu
Sōten Kuni as Manager
Daijiro Kikukawa as Namikawa
Tomohiko Ôtani as Old man at mannequin store
Ken Kawahara as
Kazuhiko Saeki as
Shogo Sakane as Gay boy B
Kyoji Murayama as Policeman
Seiji Hara as Grocery store clerk
Takashi Yamaguchi as
Minoru Miyake as
Kôichi Miya as Detective Kondo
Yūzō Harumi as Detective Suzuki
Hiroaki Kurahashi as Detective Inoue
Eisuke Sakauchi as
Kyōko Ōgimachi as
Eiko Wakaroku as
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