Pros: Joe MacDonald's photography of 1954 Tokyo, Robert Ryan's smug, sneering gang boss Cons: slack pacing and directorial indifference to both plot and characters
The primary interest in "House of Bamboo" is the wide-screen CinemaScope color photography (by Joe MacDonald) of Tokyo ca. 1954 (with lots of fire-engine reds in most every scene). The final shoot-out has an interesting locale, but it and the rest of ...
Pros: Location footage by Joe MacDonald, Robert Stack's entrance Cons: Deeply average story and direction
House of Bamboo (1955) The first Hollywood film shot on location in postwar Japan was by director Samuel Fuller, a story featuring former American servicemen running rackets in Japan under the cover of a string of pachinko ...
Pros: great noir with mysterious Japan as background Cons: holes in the story
House of Bamboo is an exciting film by Samuel Fuller that subverts the usual visual cues of the Film Noir genre to create a strong statement about the absorption of foreign cultures by other nations in the aftermath of war.During World War 2 a ...
Pros: Fair effort showing people in everyday life in Japan.
Good Tour of interesting places. Cons: Tired American Western cliches- Guns never need reloading, Thugs beat up women.
House of Bamboo - (1955) - Cinemascope (2.55:1 Aspect Ratio) An adventure in Crime; an American Gang runs amok in Post-World War II Japan. Long ago, as an innocent moviegoer, I did not pay a lot of attention to the details; I was there ...
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