Black Line

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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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白線秘密地帯

1958

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黒線地帯

1960

黄線地帯

1960

セクシー地帯

1961

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火線地帯

1961

Cast

S Shigeru AmachiKoji Machida U Utako MitsuyaMisako Y Yōko MiharaMaya T Toshio HosokawaGoro Torii R Reiko SetoReiko Onuma K Kyôko YashiroChiaki J Junko UozumiKaneko Sano H Hiroshi AyukawaHotel manager Y Yuji MunakataJoe J Jun ŌtomoYukichi Tachibana M Masaru KodakaPhoto seller R Ryuji MoriyamaTaizo

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H Hiroshi AsamiKayoko (gay boy) M Miho JoHotel maid Tokiko K Kuniko YamamuraKayo Y Yoko NanbaraEmi Hamaguchi K Kyōko KatsuraKyôko K Keiko MinakamiSingapore (waitress) M Masayo YoshidaRanko Kuroki M Masao TakamatsuOld man at boat store Y Yoji NarutoSabu S Sōten KuniManager D Daijiro KikukawaNamikawa T Tomohiko ÔtaniOld man at mannequin store K Ken Kawahara K Kazuhiko Saeki S Shogo SakaneGay boy B K Kyoji MurayamaPoliceman S Seiji HaraGrocery store clerk T Takashi Yamaguchi M Minoru Miyake K Kôichi MiyaDetective Kondo Y Yūzō HarumiDetective Suzuki H Hiroaki KurahashiDetective Inoue E Eisuke Sakauchi K Kyōko Ōgimachi E Eiko Wakaroku