Black River (1957)

6.9/10 114 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

Fumio Watanabe

Nishida

Ineko Arima

Shizuko

Tatsuya Nakadai

Jo

Asao Sano

Sakazaki

Seiji Miyaguchi

Kin

Eijirō Tōno

Kurihara

Isuzu Yamada

Landlady

Tomo'o Nagai

Okada (uncredited)

Keiko Awaji

Okada's Wife (uncredited)

Natsuko Kahara

(uncredited)

Yōko Katsuragi

(uncredited)

Eiko Miyoshi

Zeko Nakamura

(uncredited)

Masao Oda

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