Kuroi kawa

19571957
1h 54m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

59,771

7,999

Action Crime Drama

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 t... Read allA 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.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.

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

59,771

7,999

Director
- Masaki Kobayashi
Writers
- Zenzô Matsuyama(screenplay)
- Takeo Tomishima(story)
Stars

Top credits

See production, box office & company info

See more at IMDbPro

Photos

Ineko Arima and Tatsuya Nakadai in Kuroi kawa (1957)

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
Tatsuya Nakadai's first major role for director Kobayashi, starting a partnership that lasted over 15 years and 10 films.

Connections
References Ahdin tytär (1949)

User reviews7

Review

Featured review

9/10

Film noirish look at post war Japanese squalor

The story is set around an American Air Force base which has attracted bars and brothels and the native Japanese who need this sordid world to scape by and make money to just barely survive. A love triangle develops among the dwellers of a falling down apartment building and a local gangster called Killer Joe.

It's a fascinating slice of life with engaging vivid seedy characters, these type of shanty towns always develop around military bases, I can't think of any other films I've seen that take place there. It's a rare look into the postwar lower middle class and lower end criminal element in Japan. Fast moving and convincing well worth watching if you can find it. Memorable ending and last image to a memorable film.

helpful•31