Black Line

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Shigeru Amachi

Koji Machida

Age : 54 | Popularity : 3%

Utako Mitsuya

Misako

Age : 67 | Popularity : 4%

Yōko Mihara

Maya

Age : 91 | Popularity : 3%

Toshio Hosokawa

Goro Torii

Age : 68 | Popularity : 3%

Reiko Seto

Reiko Onuma

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Kyôko Yashiro

Chiaki

Age : 86 | Popularity : 4%

Junko Uozumi

Kaneko Sano

Age : 81 | Popularity : 4%

Hiroshi Ayukawa

Hotel manager

Age : 100 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Teruo Ishii Ichirō Miyagawa
Directing	Director	Teruo Ishii
	Assistant Director	Kichitarô Shibata
Production	Executive Producer	Mitsugi Okura
Sound	Original Music Composer	Michiaki Watanabe
	Sound Recordist	Hisao Negishi
Camera	Director of Photography	Jugyo Yoshida
Art	Art Direction	Keiji Miyazawa
Lighting	Lighting Technician	Akira Yaguchi
Editing	Editor	Hideo Kashima
Department	Role	Name

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