Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1955 Wide
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Samuel Fuller directed and cowrote this typically hard-boiled drama set in Japan following World War II. Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals who use their muscle to take over Tokyo's pachinko racket and commit a series of train robberies, targeting deliveries of military ammunition. Eddie is supposed to gather evidence on the murder
Jan 1, 1955 Wide
Jun 7, 2005
All Critics (12) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (1) | DVD (11)
A masterpiece that pinpoints the sublime in Fuller's sensationalism and earns every inch of its widescreen real estate.
Fuller's masterful use of natural locations within the Cinemascope frame drives the film, especially the climactic shoot-out on a giant, spinning globe at a carnival.
...the positives here outweigh the negatives...
The limits of the lengths to which dazzling camerawork and curled-lip noir bravado can make up for thoroughly ham-fisted dialogue are tested in Sam Fuller's gangster picture
Ugly American noir hero seeks single Japanese female companion for subtly homoerotic love triangle.
House of Bamboo has some of the most stunning examples of widescreen photography in the history of cinema.
Fuller, as always, is resourceful and fresh.
This could have been a credible film noir piece were it not for the inept dialog, the brightly lit sets and the insistence that Japanese people are merely movie props to be placed here and there throughout the film like houseplants.
January 25, 2009
Super Reviewer
January has been the month of House movies. That is watching movies with house in the title. This one filmed in 1954 in Japan a time when the United States had very little culture influence on that country and this film shows the old beauty of Japan. Loaded with a host of stars. Its about a Gang of crooks from the US
January 21, 2011Super Reviewer
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