The Crimson Kimono | Full Movie | Silver Scenes

[@llk-f2b]

James Shigeta was a great actor. An actor with integrity that wouldn’t compromise his ethnicity in any role he played.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

This is a terrific noir. Sam Fuller at his peak of his career and that is saying a lot. I have a Korean friend who was so impressed by this film she said she was going to write a paper on it. As a filmmaker myself I feel closest in spirit to Jacques Tourneur and Sam Fuller. " Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic"---Sam Fuller Bingo!!

[@charlessomerset9754]

You're spot on about black and white films. There is a hyper real quality that sharpens ones focus.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@charlessomerset9754 yes, it gets to the essence without any color distractions.

[@kathleenking47]

Fortune cookies were invented in San Francisco Chinatown Not in China

[@kathleenking47]

1:19:49 Meathead?🤔

[@deepayton3021]

Had a horrible accident. Good news - docs found a cancer just starting. Got it all! When I healed up, resolved no more tv biased news, political hack's podcasts, whatever garbage passes as entertainment etc at night. Now, it's old radio shows like Box 13, pat Novak, and film noirs. I do sleep better. 😊 thank you to whoever posted this. Very much appreciated

[@linalg8425]

First-rate screenplay, first-rate acting, first-rate director... The final scene reminds me so much of Orson Welles' Lady from Shanghai. Another intelligent, thought-provoking feature from the masterful Sam Fuller.

[@curtliddell3982]

Of all the comments so far, no one has mentioned James Shiegata's performance. Did he not convey the deep seated concerns/worries about inter-racial relationships? Societal "norms" are so often taken as a given. Especially when the " dominant" culture deems it to be so.

[@monicaclark9581]

Actually when this movie was made it was more common place to see a Caucasian man marry an Asian woman, than a white woman to marry an Asian. I personally knew of four white woman who married Asian men many years ago. So the Caucasians are more opened to interracial marriages than given credit for.

[@marbleman52]

Whenever I watch Glenn Corbett in a movie, I will always remember him from one of the original Star Trek episodes. He had the same mannerisms.

[@GaryLachman]

He seems rather George Peppardish, no?

[@davidpurcell8628]

He also reminds me of Robert Conrad from Wild Wild West

[@jeffyoung60]

I liked the actors James Shigeta and James Shinano, both Asian American actors at the forefront of Asians in Hollywood. Yet there was a generation of little known and forgotten Asian actors who preceded them, actors like, Richard Loo and another Chinese American who played the elderly, blind Shaolin monk on, "Kung Fu" in the early 70s. Perhaps my favorite Shigeta role is the one he played as Lieutenant Admiral Nagumo in the 1976 hit movie, "Midway". Shigeta plays a better role than the older Asian actor in the 2019 movie, "Midway". Shigeta's Nagumo is a more troubled admiral beset by unexplained foreboding in the 1976 Midway. At a pre-battle general conference aboard ship, Nagumo at the meeting's end tells everyone around him that, yes, we can win a big victory, IF the Americans do exactly what we expect them to do. In real history the American Navy did the opposite. Admiral Yamamoto was fond of over complex, highly coordinated battle plans where a lot had to go off properly and correctly at the right time. Worst was that Yamamoto did not know the Americans partially broke the Japanese naval code and deduced Midway Island was the target of Operation A.I., setting up Nagumo's carrier task force, the Kido Butai, for a major ambush just northwest of Midway. James Shigeta's Nagumo role harbors a terrible foreboding that something is amiss and about to go wrong but he can't put his finger on it nor does he have proof to convince his peers and Yamamoto otherwise.

[@Kurzula5150]

Mr Fuller always demonstrated so much understanding of the human condition, and compassion for the human spirit.

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

That scene at the beginning with Sugar Torch running down LA’s Main Street in her wig and dancing getup is fantastic.

[@romanclay1913]

Written & directed by Sam Fuller...nothing else need be said.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

for sure

[@remmymafia3889]

I think this opening shot of the theater in Little Tokyo (Main St.) is the actual location. Very interesting. Another interesting aspect of this section of downtown LA, was after the attack on Pearl Harbor, many Japanese were forced out of their residences and businesses in this ethnic enclave, and ironically, the redlined blacks close by, moved into this area briefly, before being forced out in post war.

[@BestBlackandWhiteMovies]

Why don't they make them like this anymore? Nothing better than a good film noir.

[@90FF1]

Extraordinary film. Spectacular cinematography. Victoria Shaw 🥰. Thank you.

[@crissy5183]

Love your channel! Thanks for sharing 💋

[@russbradley8581]

These are fun to watch. With good plots and nostalgic scenes of city and people of those days.

[@nanettecormier8513]

Wow! Incredible film!!!

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Sam was the best pulp director Hollywood ever had.

[@deerhoda7574]

James Shigeta ❤❤❤ Glenn Corbett❤

[@jeffyoung60]

This 1959 movie is a time capsule snapshot of historical Los Angeles, when it was not as densely built-up as of 2024. Yet for 1959 Los Angeles was considered a major metropolis on the level of New York City, Chicago, Boston, a kind of mini-capitol of the U.S. but in different states. To the wide-eyed, young aspiring actor or actress just moving into LA, it was the 'big city' alright.

[@monicad351]

Good movie. The drunk lady. So annoying, but I wish people were that truthful.😉

Exceptional in casting and subject.

[@mikeballard8404]

My friend is half white by his father and half Japanese by his mother and wasn't welcomed by his Japanese kin till he was eleven, now 55 years later they are very close.

[@MichaelGushue-tl8xd]

I'd like to see both "Going Steady" and "The Flying Fontaines" on both Sliver Scenes soon.

[@jeffyoung60]

It seems to me that Samuel Fuller had a sympathetic spot for Asians, even when he depicted Asians as the bad guys in Korean War movies. Fuller would still cast Asians in a positive light, such as the Japanese American corporal bazooka man in, "The Steel Helmet", along with a young Asian boy nicknamed, "Short Round". The Indiana Jones Temple of Doom 1987 movie would reprise the nickname, 'Short Round' for its diminutive Asian child hero but by then people had forgotten the first Short Round.

[@carlabroderick5508]

Never saw a drama about the difficulty created by misjudging someone to be racist. It seems to ultimately always be about real racism. Refreshing.

[@GaryLachman]

Forget it Charlie. It's only Little Tokyo.

[@7samurai854]

Sugino-sensei 1:03:52

[@MrUdayNarainPandeySharadNPande]

Well at the demise end of this plotless tale . if those who love get together for ever for peace

[@donjames7647]

Please upload Hitchcock movies

[@MiqueCapel]

the mind can play rhe devil, cool movie

[@jkkluyre33]

HolyF this movie is awesome

[@CinqueMalcolm]

Sam Fuller is overrated. Was this really even noir? It was not as good as expected/it was hyped to be, and the plot was just a love story with the shooting of a stripper tacked on. The capture of the murderer was so irrelevant you start to forget that they're even looking . Victoria Shaw is beautiful and Anna Lee did her thing though as Mac.

[@monicaclark9581]

You expect too much from a B rated movie. I'm surprised I'm going to be watching this to the end.

[@russr4461]

Big fan of noir, but have to agree. Just not in the same class as the better noirs.

[@jimmiemurvin1871]

Well, you've suffered through it once, and won't ever have to suffer it again. And we won't have to listen to you again either. Win-win!

[@billieb3485]

10/10 stars!