"the crimson kimono"
Jul. 26th, 2008 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A few weeks ago, Turner Classic Movies ran films about Asians in American films, which is how I got to watch Sam Fuller's The Crimson Kimono. It had been many years since I last saw it, and I enjoyed it.
The story begins with the murder of a stripper in Los Angeles. She had been working on a new number inspired by Japanese culture, which leads the case's two LAPD detectives to Little Tokyo and then to a white woman that the detectives, played by Glenn Corbett(1) and James Shigeta, both fall in love with. To say that it puts a strain on the men's friendship is an understatement. As for how it all turns out, the ending isn't what most people would expect from a 1959 movie.
You should take a look at it next time it's on, or if it's available on NetFlix. I had taped it, hoping to show it to my friend Yoko(2) last week when I was in the Bay Area, but it turns out that she doesn't own a VCR. Curses!
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(1) Some of you may remember him for playing Zefram Cochrane in the original Star Trek.
(2) I think she had a crush on Shigeta when she was growing up and yet, amazingly, she had never even heard of this film.
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Date: Aug. 11th, 2008 07:55 pm (UTC)He's a hottie, that James Shihgeta! But not quite as hot as you.
He's a hottie, that James Shihgeta! But not quite as hot as you.
<applause, please, wasn't that smooth?>
I wasn't allowed to watch much TV growing up, unless it was educational. I had to sneak to a neighbor's to see Dark Shadows!!! They didn't watch this movie, or I would have been there! They did watch Batman, thank God.
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Date: Aug. 11th, 2008 10:41 pm (UTC)