Yellow Line

Yellow Line

Part of Chitai collection

1960•1h 19m•7.0/10

Crime

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.0/10(3)

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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Production

Shintoho Company

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Shigeru Amachi

Shigeru Amachi

Kazuhiro Moroki

Yōko Mihara

Yōko Mihara

Emi Ozuki

Teruo Yoshida

Teruo Yoshida

Toshio Mayama

Yōichi Numata

Yōichi Numata

Newspaper editor

Torahiko Nakamura

Yoshihide Matsudaira

Jun Ōtomo

Jun Ōtomo

Agawa

Ryūji Oki

Tetsu

Baku Mizuhara

Mako Sanjō

Mako Sanjō

Yumiko Katsura

Katsuko Wakasugi

Katsuko Wakasugi

Hotel Madame

Reiko Seto

Casbah prostitute

Akiko Ono

Woman selling foreign cigarettes

Masayo Yoshida

Bar Madame

Kyōko Ōgimachi

Kyōko Ōgimachi

Woman at hotel

Michiyo Ichikawa

Yoji Naruto

Piler Masa

Seiji Hara

Shinko Shipping watchman

Shūji Kawabe

Poet

Takeshi Kobayashi

Foreigner

Enver Altenbay

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