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The Crimson Kimono 1959

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Sam Fuller's The Crimson Kimono kicks off with the shooting of a stripper named Sugar Torch, who staggers out of her seedy place of business to die in the middle of a busy Los Angeles street. It's a suitably lurid beginning to this perfectly Fuller-ian blend of gritty pulp noir, over-the-top melodrama, and in-your-face social commentary. Two detectives, one white (Glenn Corbett) and the other Japanese-American (James Shigeta), roommates and best friends since serving together in the Korean War, are sent to investigate the murder, and along the way have a vicious, jealousy-fueled falling out over a beautiful painter (Victoria Shaw), whose work is involved in the crime. Shot in and around Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood, The Crimson Kimono has a surprisingly complex take on racial and cultural prejudice, and a blunt, almost cynical view of human relationships ("Love is like a battle," says one character, "Somebody has to get a bloody nose."). This provocative film was received rather poorly at the time, but the daringly prolonged interracial kiss that concludes it packs more of a wallop than anything in the more earnest social issue movies of the day.


Victoria Shaw - Christine Downs
Glenn Corbett - Detective Sgt. Charlie Bancroft
James Shigeta - Detective Joe Kojaku
Anna Lee - Mac
Paul Dubov - Casale
Jaclynne Greene - Roma
Neyle Morrow - Hansel
Gloria Pall - Sugar Torch
Barbara Hayden - Mother
George Yoshinaga - Willy Hidaka
Kaye Elhardt - Nun
Aya Oyama - Sister Gertrude
George Okamura - Karate
Rev. Ryosho S. Sogabe - Priest
Robert Okazaki - Yoshinaga
Fuji - Shuto
Walter Burke - Ziggy
Jack Carol - Man
Robert Kino - Announcer
Harrison Lewis - Waiter
David McMahon - Police Officer
Edo Mita - Gardener
Rollin Moriyama - Man
Carol Nugent - Girl
Brian O'Hara - Police Captain
Allen Pinson - Stunt Double
Stafford Repp - City Librarian
Nina Roman - College Girl

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