Black River (1957)

Name: Black River
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1957-10-23
Duration: 114 min
Cast: Ineko Arima, Fumio Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tomo'o Nagai, Keiko Awaji

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

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Released 1957-10-23 · 114 min · Crime, Drama

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi

Cast

Ineko Arima as Shizuko
Fumio Watanabe as Nishida
Tatsuya Nakadai as Joe
Tomo'o Nagai as Okada
Keiko Awaji as Yasuko, Okada's wife
Asao Sano as Sakazaki
Seiji Miyaguchi as Kin
Isuzu Yamada as Mikiko, landlady
Sue Mitobe as Mihide
Eijirō Tōno as Kurihara
Toyo Takahashi as Kurihara's wife
Nakajirō Tomita as Yamaguchi
Chisato Kasuga as Ayako
Kin Sugai as Mother
Kanji Ōsugi as Yasui