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The Crimson Kimono (1959)

The Crimson Kimono poster
Directed by
Samuel Fuller
Genre
drama film, film noir, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 22m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 67 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two detectives investigate a murder in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo. One detective falls for a woman who is a key witness in the case, leading to tension between the partners.

atmospherictensemelancholicinvolvingnoirishthoughtfuldramaticurban

What happens

The Crimson Kimono is a 1959 American crime film noir drama starring James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett and Victoria Shaw. Directed by Samuel Fuller, it featured several ahead-of-its-time ideas about race and society's perception of race, a thematic and stylistic trademark of Fuller. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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