|
Price: $30.96 as of 11/23/2009 14:14 EST details
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Now!
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543170655
Format: NTSC
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageJapaneseOriginal Language
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 102 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1955
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Samuel Fuller came up with one of his gutsiest "headline shots" for House of Bamboo: Mount Fuji, in CinemaScope, framed between the boots of a U.S. soldier lying murdered on a snowy Japanese embankment. Happily, the movie that follows is no letdown. This brutal gangster film was the first American production to shoot in Japan, and Fuller exploits his locations to the max, up to and including a climactic gun battle around a Tokyo rooftop facsimile of the turning Earth. Officially the screenplay is credited to Harry Kleiner, with Fuller cited for "additional dialogue"; in actuality, the 20th Century-Fox movie transplants the basic premise of the Kleiner-scripted Street with No Name (1948) from an American Midwest town to Tokyo, but otherwise the picture is unmistakably Fuller's own. A gang of American expatriates is robbing U.S. military ammunition and supply trains, and using military tactics to do it. They're a ruthless bunch, killing not only any troops and police that get in the way but also their own wounded. Robert Stack has a satisfyingly dark-edged role as an American drifter who's drafted into the gang, and Robert Ryan is mesmerizing as the psychotic crimelord. The action is tough--there's a genuinely shocking killing in a bathhouse--and Fuller's canny deployment of the newly widened screen is just as forceful. It's great to have this early-CinemaScope classic in widescreen DVD. --Richard T. Jameson
Description:
In Tokyo a ruthless gang holds up U.S. ammunition trains. Ex-serviceman Eddie Spannier arrives from the States apparently at the invitation of one such unfortunate. But, Eddie isn't quite what he seems.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Robert Ryan & Robert Stack (yep, the guy from "Unsolved Mysteries") vie for control of Tokyo's underworld. In reality, it was the Yakuza that ruled the black-markets and pachinko parlors, and the more realistic tales of this plague are told by director Kinji Fukasaku with his "Yakuza Papers" series, or "Street Mobster", "Graveyard of Honor", etc.
But this movie is worth the price for a number of reasons: Principally, for what it gets RIGHT, the scenery (exteriors were shot on location ... Read More
Rating: -
***1/2 1955. Directed by Samuel Fuller. Tokyo. A military police officer investigates the murder of an American soldier killed by Robert Ryan's gang. Shot on location in Japan, HOUSE OF BAMBOO is a fascinating study of a civilization's clash. Then, observe how, in the first part of the film, Robert Stack is described, although we know he's a cop, as an antipathetic hero, Shirley Yamaguchi and Robert Ryan being the sole interesting characters of the film. The ambiguous attraction felt by Robert Ryan ... Read More
Rating:  -
I love Robert Ryan but even he could not save this boring script.
What could have been an amazing piece of pop action history ends up a boring love story. BUMMER
Rating:  -
Robert Ryan easily outshines Robert Stack in this rigid, brittle noir flick... The script is a bit clunky, but what's most fascinating here is the on-location shooting in an urban Japan that has long since vanished in a cloud of modernity. Like Akira Kurosawa's postwar crime films, this shows crowded, poor neighborhoods filled with tumbledown shacks and wooden sidewalks -- an urban landscape long since covered over with concrete and glass, and all the shiny trappings of the ultramodern, wealthy new ... Read More
Rating: -
I agree with Zack's take on this movie...I had just returned from two [2] sojourns in Kyoto, Japan [ 1954]...and I found this movie/DVD lacking of any Japanese mystique to a great degree...standard crime movie with the predictable ending, all taking place in Tokyo, Japan [1955]....yes, where were the Yakusa??...Robert Stack and Robert Ryan headline with the charming Shirley Yamaguchi, but that's all you get for your time and effort; incidentally, Director: Sam Fuller lured Shirley Yamaguchi away from ... Read More
Television Show
Collectibles
Movie Searches
|
|
|
Search for posters,
art prints, photos, collectables, merchandise, toys, t-shirts
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TV Guide
Program listings, celebrity profiles, industry
gossip, movie reviews, puzzle.
More
Entertainment
& TV Magazines
This site is
Hosted
by Bluehost
Read
my Bluehost Review
Most Popular TV collectibles
|
|
Home
Articles
Images
Forum
Search
Shopping
TV Trivia
Watch TV
Wallpaper
