Black Line
1960-01-13 | 80 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
Recommendations
-
The Final Conflict
-
Blind Chance
-
East of Main Street: Asians Aloud
-
Eating Out: The Open Weekend
-
The Absent One
-
Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion
-
L'Âge d'or
-
Sanam Re
-
Breaking Point
-
The Hill
-
American Pie: Revealed
-
Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill
-
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
-
The Passion of Anna
-
Best of Enemies
-
Days of Being Wild
-
The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
-
Two English Girls
-
La Notte
-
Beyond the Hills