Overview of house of bamboo, 1955, directed by samuel fuller, with robert ryan, robert stack, shirley yamaguchi, at turner classic movies. It was one of the rare postwar pictures made in japan and effectively melded japanese culture with the. However, there are a couple of locations which have remained relatively unchanged in the six decades that have passed since filming. Sam fullers house of bamboo is not the greatest film noir ever made, but it is an interesting movie, which despite its flaws, ive found myself watching over again. Rent house of bamboo 1955 on dvd and bluray netflix. One of them, the wife of a chinese partisan, who knows where the hidden gold that the japanese wanted to take out of the country, but in order to get him back, she needs to get out of the camp the situation is. House of bamboo movie cast lobby card unsigned usa 1955 item 262199. Army special assignment to investigate a murderous clique led by exsoldier sandy dawson. The paper size is approximately 11 x 17 inches 28cm x 44cm. While the official reason was the difficulty in securing an insurance bond for shooting in the. Samuel fuller, the typewriter, the rifle and the movie camera.
House of bamboo 1955 samuel fuller releases allmovie. Army investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow army official. Samuel fuller came up with one of his gutsiest headline shots for house of bamboo. House of bamboo is a pulpy confection of outrageous gangster action, fuller dynamism, and an outdated but endlessly attractive look at 1955 japan. No pinholes or tape and has never been hung or displayed. Army special assignment to investigate a murderous clique led. So before getting into the meat of samuel fullers movie let me note that yamaguchi, who has a fascinating backstory performing in china as a woman of japanese descent, is very good in. Well refund your credit card or we can credit your fandango account to use for another movie. This powerful aspect of house of bamboo is all doing of director sam fuller. House of bamboo had been on my viewing list for a while. House of bamboo movie cast lobby card unsigned usa 1955. For the most part, though, the film drags much more than usual for fuller, and the actors, with the exception of robert ryans sinister turn as the gangs psychotic ringleader sandy dawson, are uncharacteristically stiff. Read the house of bamboo movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. Bumboo is based on an original playfilm lemmerdeur written by francis veber.
He is brutal, greedy, active, and also quite romantic. In the middle of the action a group of girls placed in the th concentration camp for women, called bamboo house of dolls. There are beautiful examples of bamboo houses shared here that you can get insight from for a more unique and visually appealing house design. House of bamboo is directed by sam fuller who also cowrites with harry kleiner. She beast 1987 female convict scorpion jailhouse 41 1972. It stars robert ryan, robert stack, shirley yamaguchi and cameron mitchell. It was one of the rare postwar pictures made in japan. House of bamboo offers all fullers key themes and motifs in a characteristic thriller form. Yes, we like fullers movies for a certain overthetop b. House of bamboo 1955 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Yes, we like fullers movies for a certain over the top b movie rush, but those who say hes. Robert ryan, center, and robert stack, right, in house of bamboo. Foxs dvd of house of bamboo is a visual stunner, with joe macdonalds decorative cinematography finding color in every scene the film was reportedly shot during a cold tokyo winter. Bamboo house of dolls 1973 delinquent girl alleycat in heat 1973 sex and fury 1973 utsushimi 2000 wonder lady vs american monsters 2012 image of a bound girl 1980 naked rashomon 1972 captured mother and daughter.
Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing house of bamboo near you. House of bamboo 1955 found fuller sitting pretty, from a financing and distribution standpoint. Beautifully photographed and wellwritten, house of bamboo has many underlying themes. House of bamboo was the first postwar american movie to be filmed in japan and as you can imagine most of the tokyo locations including ginza and asakusa now look nothing like whats seen on screen. House of bamboo is an example of the iconoclastic filmmakers ribald eye for cinematic collisions of characters and forms. The film is a loose remake of the street with no name 1948, using the same screenwriter harry kleiner and cinematographer joseph macdonald. House of bamboo 1955 in postworld war ii tokyo, eddie kenner robert stack is on a u. Shop for house of bamboo movie cast related autographs, signed photographs, historical documents and manuscripts from the worlds largest collection. The first full color cinemascope hollywood film shot on location in postwar japan directed by the great samuel fuller about a military detective who goes. House of bamboo 1955 cast and crew in postworld war ii tokyo, eddie kenner robert stack is on a u. For 20th century fox, he had already made the atomic era noir pickup on south street 1953 and the submarine drama hell and high water 1954, the latter his first experiment with technicolor and cinemascope. All the elements associated with fullers style are on display, his ambiguous politics, breakneck story telling style and pulp sensibility, overlayed on this occasion with an oriental aesthete that veers between homage. House of bamboo 1955 may not be, as its studio claimed, the first hollywood movie shot on location in japan, but, clearly inspired by its surroundings, it is the most visually lush film that the great action director ever made.
House of bamboo is a film about a white detective trying to take down a group of white criminals in postwar japan. Army special assignment to investigate a murderous clique. House of bamboo style b 1955 single sided, decorative wall poster print. House of bamboo 1955 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Downatheal exserviceman eddie spannier arrives from the states, apparently at the invitation of one such unfortunate. Leigh harline scores the music and the film is a loose remake of the street with no name 1948. Tokyo postwar underworld eddie kenner robert stack is given a special assignment by the army to get the inside story on sandy dawson robert ryan, a former gi who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and japanese locals. Extreme pain is a 2012 bollywood comedy film directed by jagdish rajpurohit. Robert ryan, robert stack, cameron mitchell, brad dexter, shirley yamaguchi, sessue hayakawa, biff elliot. House of bamboo movie cast lobby card unsigned usa. Find release information for house of bamboo 1955 samuel fuller on allmovie. The commentary track tells us that house of bamboo is a remake of an earlier fox noir film called the street with no name, starring richard widmark.
Though the executives at fox gave the green light for fullers tigrero, a pisscutter of a movie about a big game hunter to star john wayne, ava gardner and tyrone power, the plug was pulled while he was scouting locations. All house of bamboo movie posters 1 house of bamboo poster 1 x1500 0 0. Free wallpapers download of house of bamboo movie, hero, heroine, etc is available in our gallery section. Jan 26, 2017 house of bamboo 1955 full movie edward schroder. The condition of this item is brand new mint condition. But fuller isnt using an exotified setting for a typical noirdetective film, rather the setting is a way to gently lampoon american occupation, to define americans in postwar japan as only being entirely selfconcerned and consistently bungling anything having to do with. Army special assignment to investigate a murderous clique led by exsoldier sandy dawson robert ryan. Stuart galbraith iv is a kyotobased film historian whose work includes the emperor and the wolf the lives and films of akira kurosawa and toshiro mifune and.
While not one of fullers best, house of bamboo still has enough flashes of his unique brilliance to make it worthwhile. Every purchase includes our industry recognized coa. Eddie kenner robert stack is given a special assignment by the army to get the inside story on sandy dawson robert ryan, a former gi who has formed a. House of bamboo 1955, out on an excellent bluray transfer from twilight time, may not be, as its studio claimed, the first hollywood movie shot on.
Now, in that one, widmarks nemesis is mark stevens. Rent house of bamboo 1955 starring robert ryan and robert stack on dvd and bluray. House of bamboo is a 1955 american film noir shot in cinemascope and deluxe color. You may exchange or request a refund for your entire order, less the convenience fee, through fandango up until the posted showtime. With robert ryan, robert stack, shirley yamaguchi, cameron mitchell.
Mount fuji, in cinemascope, framed between the boots of a u. The enhanced transfer is a vast improvement over tv broadcasts and the splicy 16mm print that made an american cinematheque audience furious back in 1997 or so. I was pushed via a prompt for film school dropouts to watch a film starring shirley yamaguchi, an actress im unfamiliar with. The bamboo materials are all natural and thrives well in diverse climates provided it is designed in a way that ensures durability. Many fans would much prefer better received films such as pickup on south street or forty guns but i prefer house of bamboo to these films, because it is simply beautiful and dramatically stylish. Youll have to complete your refund and exchange before the posted showtime indicated on your ticket. But fuller isnt using an exotified setting for a typical noirdetective film, rather the setting is a way to gently lampoon american occupation, to define americans in postwar japan as only being entirely selfconcerned and consistently bungling anything having to do.