Black Line (5.0)

Film · 1960 · 1 h 20 min · Krimi

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.

Regie: Teruo Ishii

Mit 天知茂, 三ツ矢歌子, 三原葉子, 細川俊夫, Reiko Seto, Kyôko Yashiro, 魚住純子, 鮎川浩, Yuji Munakata, 大友純

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