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House of Bamboo: Directed by Samuel Fuller. With Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell. Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
House of Bamboo (1955) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
House of Bamboo may look like a standard B crime-picture, but in amongst the noirish trappings, the somewhat forlornly straight-forward plot, the workmanlike performances, there lurks one of the few genuine portraits of post-War Japanese life ever attempted by an American filmmaker.
In Tokyo, a ruthless gang starts holding up U.S. ammunition trains, prepared to kill any of their own members wounded during a robbery. Down-at-heel ex-serviceman Eddie Spannier arrives from the States, apparently at the invitation of one such unfortunate.
House of Bamboo. According to Robert Stack, Fuller told an actor to go down really low when he passed a 50 gallon drum. Without informing the actor, the director had a sharpshooter on a parallel who shot over the man's head and into the drum. After it blew up, the actor said, "Jesus Christ!
Hell Dogs: Directed by Masato Harada. With Jun'ichi Okada, Kentarô Sakaguchi, Mayu Matsuoka, Miyavi. A traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.
The Bamboo House of Dolls: Directed by Chih-Hung Kuei. With Birte Tove, Lieh Lo, Hsieh Wang, Terry Liu. A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.
Music by Leigh Harline. Lyrics by Jack Brooks. Serenade in Blue. (uncredited) Music by Harry Warren. Played at the bar when Charlie sees Mariko. He Ri Jun Zai Lai. (uncredited) Written by Xue An Liu and Lin Bei.
House of Bamboo: Directed by Samuel Fuller. With Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell. Planted in a Tokyo crime syndicate, a U.S. Army Investigator attempts to probe the coinciding death of a fellow Army official.
Bamboo House of Dolls (1973, 1974 or 1977, various years are given for this title) is a Hong Kong veteran Chin Hung Kuei's (Killer Snakes, Boxer's Omen, Payment in Blood etc.) women in prison flick produced by the legendary Shaw Brothers.
