Gentleman at Tokyo Station
表向きはタイピスト、裏では接待用のコールガールとして東京貿易に雇われている滝川玲子は、社員の吉岡との結婚資金稼ぎに森川部長とも密会を重ねていた。しかし、吉岡は森川から預かった書類を盗まれたのが原因で大阪への異動を命じられる。それを知った玲子は、森川に自分との肉体関係を公表すると脅し、吉岡の異動命令を取り消させると、手切金までせしめる。そして玲子は自分が所属する売春組織に行き、ボスの瀬川に脱会を迫るが逆に殺されてしまう。玲子殺害を知り、しかも自分が容疑者となっていることを知った吉岡は茫然と街を歩いていると、書類を盗んだ犯人・真弓と出会う。
Taizo
Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.
Rika, a manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However, she escapes through the assistance rendered her by First Lieutenant Yokoyama of the Japanese Naval Commander's Office. After the end of war, Yokoyama plans to escape from riot-ridden Amoy and finally succeeds with the help of Rika to whom he gives a destroyer. Rika is actually the leader of a gang of pirates, and plans to rule the East China Sea by crushing Banryu, her rival.
Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.
