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.
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.
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)
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.
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