Yellow Line

Yellow Line

79 mins | Crime | April 29, 1960

From the king of Japanese exploitation films comes a criminal drama told in a semi-documentary fashion. The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assasin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.

Yellow Line

79 mins | Crime | April 29, 1960

Yellow Line
From the king of Japanese exploitation films comes a criminal drama told in a semi-documentary fashion. The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assasin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
Producers Shintoho Company
Original title Ôsen chitai
Directors Hiromichi Takebe, Teruo Ishii
Writers Teruo Ishii

Cast

Shigeru Amachi

as Kazuhiro Moroki

Yōko Mihara

as Emi Ozuki

Teruo Yoshida

as Toshio Mayama

Yôichi Numata

as Newspaper editor

Torahiko Nakamura

as Yoshihide Matsudaira

Jun Ōtomo

as Agawa

Ryûji Oki

as Tetsu

Mako Sanjō

as Yumiko Katsura

Katsuko Wakasugi

as Hotel Madame

Reiko Seto

as Casbah prostitute

Akiko Ono

as Woman selling foreign cigarettes

Masayo Yoshida

as Bar Madame

Kyōko Ōgimachi

as Woman at hotel

Yoji Naruto

as Piler Masa

Seiji Hara

as Shinko Shipping watchman

Shûji Kawabe

as Poet

Takeshi Kobayashi

as Foreigner

Susan Kennedy

as The Moor