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| ACTORS: | Robert Ryan, Robert Stack |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Samuel Fuller |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 July, 1955 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Fox Home Entertainme |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543148623 |
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Customer Reviews of House of Bamboo
One of the best Hollywood films ever made in Japan. House of Bamboo is a film noir classic. Filmed entirely on location in Japan. Think Reservoir Dogs in Tokyo. (In fact, the scene in Reservoir Dogs where Steve Buscemi is running from the police is almost identical to the scene in House of Bamboo where Robert Stack and Robert Ryan are running from the police.) The dialog is incredible, ("Who's the Ichiban!, Kimona Girls etc) and the acting is great, especially Stack and Ryan. Shirley Yamaguchi was a major star in China and Japan and was later elected to the Japanese Diet and served on a UN Commision. The scene where Robert Ryan shoots his own man in the bathtub was shown in Minorty Report when Tom Cruise gets his eyes replaced. <
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Ryan gives it punch
This 1955 Sam Fuller film noir is basically saved, character-wise, by Robert Ryan who plays a vicious crime boss in, of all places, post-WW II Japan. The first American film shot there after the war, this is unique for that aspect. Ryan is great, as usual; I can't think of one film he's in that he doesn't make better than it is thanks to his presence. He runs a bunch of pachinko (read: pinball) parlors, a front for his crime operations which include robbing American supply trains of all kinds of stuff (the opening scene shows this really well).
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>Robert Stack plays an undercover cop who infiltrates Ryan's gang to find out exactly how the man murdered at the beginning of the film during the heist bought it. Thanks to not only colorful settings, but Ryan's great performance, this is better than it should be. The script is kind of ho-hum. Stack is OK, pretty good, not great; he's Robert Stack. He falls for the widow of the murdered guy; she's Japanese so Fuller brings in another (semi-)controversial element, interracial love (which he also did in Crimson Kimono).
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>Fuller's an original, no question. Whether that originality is always of high quality is questionable, but he does love to hit the viewer in the face with issues challenging social convention and in that respect, he's definitely worth watching. When he's great--as in Pickup on South Street, or Shock Corridor--where everything fits together and purrs like a Ford Cobra engine--he's unbeatable. Here, in House of Bamboo, he gets some of the issues in, but the story is nowhere near as strong as it could or should be.
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>Worth seeing. Owning? I dunno.