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.
00:08:38 No sign of him. That's no surprise.
00:11:14 No, I didn't sense anything strange about them.
00:14:36 Hey! Hey!
00:16:50 Who?
00:18:55 They won't be dancing any more.
00:21:27 What's wrong?
00:24:45 Sabu!
00:29:41 If you want it, come and get it.
00:32:25 Why do you say that?
00:35:09 Hello!
00:37:42 A doll shop in Isezakicho.
00:42:55 Still going to play innocent? You can't run now.
00:45:15 You've got to believe me! You're a reporter, too!
00:48:16 They must have got Misako, found out I had the doll...
00:51:05 Is there anything else?
00:53:39 Thank you.
00:59:23 Maybe this is the time for me to go back to who I am.
01:03:35 I'm Kayoko. How nice of you to ask me over.
01:05:56 Come on!
01:08:30 There's an innocent girl named Misako there. I can't leave her.
01:12:01 It's ok. Were you scared?
01:19:50 The end