Review of House of Bamboo

Being a remake of "Street with no Name" a true Noir with black and white and so on House of Bamboo suffers an abrupt change in this format to fits as Noir including the cinemascope presentation, but switch the place to far west on Japan post war, the environment is utterly ingrained in another kind of the culture over western countries, the prejudice is smouldering, due just ten years before the tragic happenings in Nagasaki and Hiroshima weren't effortlessly swallowed by the proudly Japanese, the movie has their enchants, Robert Ryan as mobster acting on legal business as cover, Robert Stack exceedingly akin with forthcoming Eliot Ness, as Army agent and disguised as crook in order to infiltrate in the robbery's gang, the plot is quite acceptable, however is scarce where the Noir is so striking, the exploitation of the femme fatale with dubious behavior, the meek Mariko doesn't fits in this type at all, however the movie display an advanced Tokyo with news buildings almost recovered after years of bombing, even living in extreme poverty in those slams neaby the river, also an unbridgeable process of westernization was ongoing there, when l saw Charlie, give me a solid impression that him clearly should be DeForest Kelley with a prominent gang member, but somehow his name didn't appears on the credits, back at IMDB he was there as uncredited, fine picture!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5