Ryuji Moriyama

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.

Keiichi is a serious office worker. His only hobby was cross-dressing, but he stopped doing that after getting married. He thought that was fine. I was happy. However, one day, he meets a beautiful young man at a gay bar where his boss forcefully takes him. After having a fateful and dazzling sex with the young man, he finally abandons his family and work and falls into a sensual daily life with the young man. However, those days of pleasure came to an abrupt end...

Caché derrière les rues glamour et les lumières vives de Ginza à Tokyo se cache un ventre miteux de sexe et de criminalité. La prostitution étant interdite, les gangs gèrent des entreprises de « call girl » présentées comme des entreprises légitimes. L'une de ces opérations est dirigée depuis la discothèque « Arizona ». Le détective Yoshioka est un flic infiltré d'Osaka qui travaille avec la police de Tokyo pour démêler les divers liens criminels qui lient le Japon à des groupes internationaux...

Hiroshi Yoshioka, un salaryman, se fait voler son portefeuille par une pickpocket. Pris pour un complice de celle-ci, il se fait embarquer par la police. Il est rapidement mis hors de cause, mais se retrouve muté, suite à cette affaire gênante. Sa compagne le convint de faire appel de la décision auprès de son chef de service, mais peu après, celle-ci se fait assassiner, et il se retrouve à nouveau suspect. Hiroshi va retomber sur Mayumi la pickpocket, qui va l’aider à démêler l’affaire

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.