# Black River (1957)

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**Original title**: *黒い河*
**Runtime**: 114 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Masaki Kobayashi
**Written by**: Zenzō Matsuyama, Takeo Tomishima
**Starring**: Fumio Watanabe, Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Asao Sano, Seiji Miyaguchi, Eijirō Tōno

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You live in a riverside town where kindness is currency and cruelty walks free. Then a visiting student arrives with his idealistic girlfriend and an uninvited guest whose grin hides a switchblade. Masaki Kobayashi’s 1957 Kaneto Shindō script pinches postwar Japan’s slack law like a vise left to rust. The film walks away with nothing resolved.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, dread, outsider, raw

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