Black River (1957)
Original title: 黒い河
Black River is a 1957 Japanese-language crime movie directed by Masaki Kobayashi, with a running time of 1h 54m. It stars Fumio Watanabe, Ineko Arima and Tatsuya Nakadai.
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.
Where to watch Black River
Stream: Criterion Channel
Cast
- Fumio Watanabe as Nishida
- Ineko Arima as Shizuko
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Jo
- Asao Sano as Sakazaki
- Seiji Miyaguchi as Kin
- Eijirō Tōno as Kurihara
- Isuzu Yamada as Landlady
- Tomo'o Nagai as Okada (uncredited)
- Keiko Awaji as Okada's Wife (uncredited)
- Natsuko Kahara as (uncredited)
- Chisato Kasuga as (uncredited)
- Yōko Katsuragi as (uncredited)