B-Movie with Ambience

1955 and largely shot on the streets of Tokyo make this film stand out. the story is a rather resolute noir but Fuller uses local talent. No white guys made up to be inscrutalble Japanese here.
To me the star of the film is Japan, 10 years after WWII. Fuller and D.P. MacDonald do a lot of great movie making that has nothing to do with the movie!
If you have any interest in post-war Japan you will enjoy this movie.
I wonder about the shooting in the film and if Fuller had trouble with the MPAA. I heard it was taboo to show the gun and the person shot in the same frame. The sequence itself is quite shocking and has homoerotic tone to it.
The rest of the gun play is rapid fire as well. Nobody shoots once or twice, cops and robbers both blaze away in a John Woo-ish sort of fashion.
There's more subdued homoerotiscm and lots of great camera work. If you like to watch well made films you will enjoy this one.