Black River (1957)

7.0/10 • 114 min • Crime Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Ineko Arima

Fumio Watanabe

Tatsuya Nakadai

Tomo'o Nagai

Keiko Awaji

Yasuko, Okada's wife

Asao Sano

Seiji Miyaguchi

Isuzu Yamada

Mikiko, landlady

Eijirō Tōno

Toyo Takahashi

Kurihara's wife

Nakajirō Tomita

Kin Sugai

Natsuko Kahara

Yōko Katsuragi

Sachiko, Joe's girlfriend

Masao Shimizu

Eiko Miyoshi

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