House of Bamboo 01/30/24

(reprint)
Blu-ray

This isn’t a new disc; you might not even be able to find a copy. We’re reposting a 2015 review because its original page was taken down (explanation at today’s CineSavant Column   ). Samuel Fuller’s Japan-filmed thriller is a fanciful vision of Yankee crooks functioning on the streets of Tokyo. As pulp fiction it can’t be beat — Robert Stack is the obsessed new hood in town and Robert Ryan disturbs as a sexually ambiguous mobster. Fuller flexes his cinematic muscles in an ‘exotic’ location! On Blu-ray from Twilight Time.
01/30/24 (08/13/15)