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Suggestions?

posted 19 years ago by SterlingBen
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I loved this movie, can anyone else suggest any more old movies set in Japan?
Or any Japanese movies with a Japanese guy in America? (Japanese racist towards americans is a plus)

[–] romipanchir 18 years ago

Drunken Angel and Stray Dog come to mind... both are crime films set right after the second world war.

[–] SterlingBen 18 years ago

awesome, thanx (edit) but lame Amazon says neither on DVD

[–] thederf1 18 years ago

Try Tokyo Joe with Bogart. Its not his best but still interesting.

[–] elf-65 17 years ago

"Sayonara" is not bad - a little soggy around the edges though. Brando is a little annoying, but Red Buttons is good.

[–] Eightythreeyearoldguy 17 years ago

Not exactly what you're looking for maybe, but I suggest HIGH AND LOW, a Japanese adaptation of an Ed McBain 87th Precinct novel transposed to Japan.

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[–] SterlingBen 17 years ago

I got Tokyo Joe and Walk, Don't Run
anymore?

[–] RichardTheBruce 17 years ago

Maybe a little late, but the obvious suggestion is another Sam Fuller film called The Crimson Kimono. It co-stars one of his regulars James Shigeta in a detective story that takes place in LA with two cops trying to solve a murder.

Not an all-out Japanese character, but of interest.

James Bond visited Japan in You Only Live Twice (1967). Not one of the best, but the Tiger Tanaka character is a good one.

Sayonara (1957) with Marlon Brando, Red Buttons, and James Garner is a great one.

Brando is also in Teahouse of the August Moon, which takes place in Okinawa.

[–] algsmail 16 years ago

Try "Rififi in Tokyo" if you can find it. I saw it as a kid and I still think it is the best Japanese crime movie I ever saw, Total "noir".

[–] thrillhousejhs11 16 years ago

I'd recommend one of Kurosawa's lesser known films: his superb film noir, Hamlet adaptation "The Bad Sleep Well"--available on the Criterion Collection; this is my favorite Kurosawa film personally.

Also if you're looking for some flicks with racial content, I stumbled upon the awesomely titled "Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter" which involves gang violence between Japanese youths and their half-breed (specifically African American/Japanese) counterparts.
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[–] PhillipNoir 11 years ago

Well, there's the infamous Gojira (Godzilla). The early films of Akira Kurosawa present Tokyo in many of her aspects. His 1950 film Stray Dog displays a back alley look at post war Tokyo that we never see in Sayonara or other American films like Michener's Bridges at Toko-Ri. His Hi and Low is excellent Japanese police noir set in Tokyo of the 1960s, taken from a story of a kidnapping by American mystery great Ed McBain. Drunken Angel, Scandal, Ikiru, I Live In Fear, The Lower Depths, The Bad Sleep Well display alternate sides of 1950s and 1960s Japan.

[–] mCihhh 8 years ago

This is what you're looking for: The Yakuza (1974)
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