The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.
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Shigeru Amachi as Kazuhiro Moroki
Yōko Mihara as Emi Ozuki
Teruo Yoshida as Toshio Mayama
Yōichi Numata as Newspaper editor
Torahiko Nakamura as Yoshihide Matsudaira
Jun Ōtomo as Agawa
Ryūji Oki as Tetsu
Mako Sanjō as Yumiko Katsura
Katsuko Wakasugi as Hotel Madame
Reiko Seto as Casbah prostitute
Akiko Ono as Woman selling foreign cigarettes
Masayo Yoshida as Bar Madame
Kyōko Ōgimachi as Woman at hotel
Yoji Naruto as Piler Masa
Akira Sagawa Development Manager
Mitsugi Okura Executive Producer
Hiromichi Takebe Assistant Director
Jiro Sekikawa Lighting Technician
Hideo Kashima Editor
Keiji Miyazawa Art Direction
Teruo Ishii Director
Teruo Ishii Screenplay
Kenji Murayama Sound Recordist
Hiroshi Suzuki Director of Photography
Michiaki Watanabe Original Music Composer
Ôsen chitai Trailer
黄線地帯 Trailer
Japan 29 April 1960
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17 February 1966
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04 February 1967
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
01 February 1964
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09 June 1959
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
11 March 1958
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10 April 1966
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo.
01 March 1964
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27 January 1960
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24 May 1961
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Original trailer YELLOW LINE [Ôsen chitai] (1960) directed by Ishii Teruo and starring Amachi Shigeru Yoshida Teruo Mihara Yoko Amano Teruko and Sanjo ...
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01 January 1960
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01 January 1960
An honest man instills in his only child the adage, 'Honesty is the best policy.' When the boy grows up, he has to fight for the truth and it remains to be seen if he can keep his ideologies alive.
25 August 1960
The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!
29 May 1960
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12 October 1960
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18 November 1960
Newly graduated defense attorney David Kyle (Vincent Ball) is stymied by his first case: to represent youthful criminal Jimmy Fuller (Brian Smith), who refuses to explain his involvement in the murder of the revered Diana White (Angela Douglas), a probation officer seemingly devoted to her work.
29 January 1960
A TV film made as part of The Buick-Electra Playhouse.
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