You know what the army do with an agent found behind enemy lines.

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House of Bamboo is directed by Sam Fuller who also co-writes with Harry Kleiner. It stars Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi and Cameron Mitchell. It's a CinemaScope production with colour by De Luxe, with photography by Joseph MacDonald. Leigh Harline scores the music and the film is a loose remake of The Street with No Name (1948), where Kleiner & MacDonald were also involved. The film is exclusively shot on location in Japan.

Tokyo, 1954, and an underworld outfit of American ex-servicemen... read the rest.

When a man is mysteriously murdered in Tokyo, the US Army plants it's streetwise investigator "Eddie" (Robert Stack) into the city with a mission to inveigle himself into a gang of petty American racketeers. It's quite easy for him get their attention, but securing the trust of "Sandy" (Robert Ryan) isn't so straightforward, especially as his sidekick "Griff" (Cameron Mitchell) is both wary and jealous of this new addition to their numbers. As this gang start to become more ambitious with their criminal activities , "Eddie" finds his position becoming more and more perilous. Can he survive the... read the rest.