Black River

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.

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Masaki Kobayashi directed Black River in 1957. See Masaki Kobayashi's full filmography, where to start with Masaki Kobayashi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Masaki Kobayashi.

Black River was released in 1957 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 114 minutes.