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

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)

Trailer

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