House of Bamboo (1955)
- Directed by
- Samuel Fuller
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 71 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An undercover American agent goes to Japan to infiltrate a gang of former American soldiers who are running a crime ring in Tokyo. He works to gain the trust of the gang leader while keeping his true identity hidden.
tensegrittysuspensefulnoirishatmosphericcoldmethodical
What happens
House of Bamboo is a 1955 American film noir directed by Samuel Fuller, from a screenplay co-written with Harry Kleiner, and starring Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Yoshiko Yamaguchi (credited as 'Shirley Yamaguchi'), Cameron Mitchell, and Sessue Hayakawa. Set and principally filmed on-location in Japan, it follows an undercover American agent (Stack) infiltrating a gang of ex-American servicemen operating in Tokyo. The screenplay is an uncredited reworking of the 1948 film The Street with No Name (1948). The film was released by 20th Century Fox on July 1, 1955. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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