Black River

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
1957    1h 54mAction, Crime,
7.26.8
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.

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  • Fumio WatanabeNishida
  • Ineko ArimaShizuko
  • Tatsuya NakadaiJo
  • Asao SanoSakazaki
  • Seiji MiyaguchiKin
  • Eijirō TōnoKurihara
  • Isuzu YamadaLandlady
  • Tomo'o NagaiOkada (uncredited)
  • Keiko AwajiOkada's Wife (uncredited)
  • Natsuko Kahara(uncredited)
  • Chisato Kasuga(uncredited)
  • Yōko Katsuragi(uncredited)
  • Kôichi Kitami(uncredited)
  • Masao Kiyomizu(uncredited)
  • Sue Mitobe(uncredited)
  • Eiko Miyoshi
  • Yasushi Nagata(uncredited)
  • Zeko Nakamura(uncredited)
  • Masao Oda
  • Shojiro Ogasawara(uncredited)

Black River Trivia

Black River was released on October 23, 1957.

Black River was directed by Masaki Kobayashi.

Black River has a runtime of 1h 54m.

Black River was produced by Ryōtarō Kuwata.

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.

The key characters in Black River are Nishida (Fumio Watanabe), Shizuko (Ineko Arima), Jo (Tatsuya Nakadai).

Black River is an Action, Crime, Drama film.

Black River has an audience rating of 7.2 out of 10.

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