Black Line
1960 · 80 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 122 VOTES · DIR. Teruo Ishii
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 778 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:14 Black Line
00:03:26 She likes to look good.
00:08:26 I've got to find that pimp.
00:11:10 Yes.
00:14:11 I'm just... just...
00:16:25 Inoue, Nagai, you hit the theaters.
00:18:41 But I wash clothes, too.
00:21:08 Oh, a name card!
00:23:45 Let's make a deal.
00:29:09 If I were an insurance agent, i'd suggest five.
00:32:02 He just left.
00:34:28 I saw right away you knew how to drive.
00:37:00 Yes... all right, goodbye.
00:42:00 Why, hello there!
00:44:43 Sure it looks bad, but...
00:47:27 Stop! Hey! Halt!
00:50:16 Anything else?
00:52:48 Do you need a doctor?
00:58:17 How are you?
01:01:59 hey!
01:04:47 The dear! He looks so serious!
01:07:26 Give me that!
01:10:14 No? That's too bad...
01:17:03 Hey! Are you all right?