House of Bamboo Movie Review 1955

A ruthless gang in Tokyo is holding up U.S. ammunition trains and will stop at nothing to cover their tracks, including killing their own. Stack is an undercover cop who infiltrates the gang, led by Ryan's vicious crime boss. Although Ryan does not disappoint, Stack's not at his best, and love scenes between him and Shirley Yamaguchi are stilted and uncomfortable to watch. The real star in this remake of "The Street with No Name" (1948) is the Cinemascope view of post war Japan and the finale in a Tokyo amusement park.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 102 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Crime Drama, Film Noir, Heists: Trains, Undercover Cops, Tokyo

Screenplay

Harry Kleiner

Cast

Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Yoshiko (Shirley) Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter, Sessue Hayakawa, Biff (Elliott) Elliot, Harry Carey, John Doucette, Barry Coe, DeForest Kelley

Cinematography

Joe MacDonald

Director

Samuel Fuller

Music

Leigh Harline