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Black River

1957
Directed byMasaki Kobayashi
1h 54m

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 WatanabeNishidaIneko ArimaShizukoTatsuya NakadaiJo
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Asao SanoSakazaki
Seiji MiyaguchiKin
Eijirō TōnoKurihara
Isuzu YamadaLandlady
Tomo'o NagaiOkada (uncredited)
Keiko AwajiOkada's Wife (uncredited)
Natsuko Kahara(uncredited)
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GENRES
CrimeDrama
STATUSReleased
RATING
6.8

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