Black River (1957)
Kuroi kawa
114 min
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.
- Release date
- October 23, 1957
- Country of origin
- Japan
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
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Cast
- Ineko Arima as Shizuko
- Fumio Watanabe as Nishida
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Jo
- Tomo'o Nagai as Okada
- Keiko Awaji as Okada's Wife
- Asao Sano as Sakazaki
- Seiji Miyaguchi as Kin
- Isuzu Yamada as 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
- Natsuko Kahara as Yasui's wife
- Yôko Katsuragi as Sachiko, Joe's girlfriend
- Masao Shimizu as Kuroki
- Shōjirō Ogasawara as Husband
- Eiko Miyoshi as Procuress
- Yasushi Nagata as Doctor
- Zekō Nakamura as Old Man
- Masao Oda as Chief
- Tamotsu Tamura as Joe's henchman
- Reiko Minakami as Nurse
- Shinichirô Minami as Pimp
Crew
- Masaki Kobayashi · Director
- Zenzō Matsuyama · Writer
- Takeo Tomishima · Writer
- Ryôtarô Kuwata · Producer
- Chûji Kinoshita · Composer
- Yūharu Atsuta · Cinematographer
- Yoshiyasu Hamamura · Editor
- Ninjin Kurabu · Production designer