Fire Line

Fire Line

79 mins | Drama, Crime | May 24, 1961

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).

Fire Line

79 mins | Drama, Crime | May 24, 1961

Fire Line
Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).
Producers Shintoho Company
Original title 火線地帯
Directors Hiromichi Takebe
Writers Hiromichi Takebe, Teruo Ishii

Cast

Teruo Yoshida

as Shin'ichi

Yōko Mihara

as Yumi

Shigeru Amachi

as Kuroiwa

Jun Kambayashi

as Sabu

Den Kunikata

as Kindaichi

Kôichi Miya

as Kyôji

Jun Tazaki

as Shigemune

Ryuji Wakamiya

as Koyama

Jun Ōtomo

as Naganuma

Keiko Tachibana

as Kyôko

Masahiko Naruse

as Nakamoto

Yuji Munakata

as Yôji

Yoji Naruto

as Kenji