Black River
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.
Top cast
Fumio Watanabe
Nishida
Ineko Arima
Shizuko
Tatsuya Nakadai
Jo
Asao Sano
Sakazaki
Seiji Miyaguchi
Kin
Eijirō Tōno
Kurihara
Isuzu Yamada
Landlady
Tomo'o Nagai
Okada (uncredited)
Keiko Awaji
Okada's Wife (uncredited)
Natsuko Kahara
(uncredited)
Chisato Kasuga
(uncredited)
Yōko Katsuragi
(uncredited)
Kôichi Kitami
(uncredited)
Masao Kiyomizu
(uncredited)
Sue Mitobe
(uncredited)
Where to watch
Stream
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Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 23, 1957
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Original language
- JA
- Original title
- 黒い河
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