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House of Bamboo is a 1955 American film noir shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color, directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller, and starring Robert Ryan. The other co-screenwriter was Harry Kleiner. The cinematographer was Joseph MacDonald.
House of Bamboo: Directed by Samuel Fuller. With Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell. Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
House of Bamboo. In post-World War II Tokyo, Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is on a U.S. Army special assignment to investigate a murderous clique led by ex-soldier Sandy...
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In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Down-at-heel ex-serviceman Eddie Spannier arrives from the States, apparently at the invitation of one such unfortunate.
House of Bamboo is a remake of the 1948 Twentieth Century-Fox film The Street with No Name, which was directed by William Keighley and starred Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark and Lloyd Nolan (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1941-50).
House of Bamboo (1955) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
House of Bamboo offers all Fuller's key themes and motifs in a characteristic thriller form: dual identities, divided loyalties, racial tensions, life (and cinema) as war. Full Review |...
Jun 6, 2005 · Quite simply, House of Bamboo has some of the most stunning examples of widescreen photography in the history of cinema. Travelling to Japan on 20th Century Fox’s dime, Fuller captured a country divided, trapped between past traditions and progressive attitudes while lingering in the devastating aftereffects of an all-too-recent World War.
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
Shot in sweeping CinemaScope and vivid DeLuxe color, Samuel Fuller’s House of Bamboo is the best of a surprisingly small handful of American noirs set in the Far East.
