The Crimson Kimono

The Crimson Kimono (1959)

YES, this is a beautiful American girl in the arms of a Japanese boy!

Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.

Date of release
1959-10-21
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (74)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Romance, Drama, Crime
Director
Samuel Fuller

Casting

Interesting facts

The Crimson Kimono is a 1959 American crime film noir drama starring James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett and Victoria Shaw. Directed by Samuel Fuller, it features several ahead-of-its-time ideas about race and society's perception of race, a thematic and stylistic trademark of Fuller.

Production

Fuller was acquainted with a Nisei that worked for the LAPD as a detective, who became the basis of the Joe character. Columbia Studios head of production Sam Briskin went with the pitch for the film even after trying to get Fuller to make the "white guy a sonofabitch", which Fuller firmly disagreed with when it came to making a love story. The film was shot in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles in the winter of 1959.

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