The Crimson Kimono (1959)

The Crimson Kimono

“Is Samuel Fuller a B-movie poet or a masculine cult figure of the American cinema? A little bit of both, in my opinion as it depends on the film. Even then, sometimes the film in question is a blurring of the two modes.   Take The Crimson Kimono, a pleasurable little jewel that lands somewhere between rough noir, racial drama, and conflicted love story. Fuller’s bait-and-switch is masterfully controlled and revealed smartly as we’re slowly introduced to the interracial cop partners (James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett) investigating the murder of a stripper and their erotic fixation on a potential witness (Victoria Shaw). Think of the hard-boiled, often drunk (both on alcohol and her own mythmaking) Mac (Anna Lee), a noir creation that gives vibrancy and flavor to the proceedings. She’s” read more

Slant’s 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time (100 movies items)

"Manny Farber wrote, “The reason movies are bad lies is this audience’s failure to appreciate, much less fight for, films like the unspectacular, unpolished ‘B,’ worked out by a few people with belief and skill in their art, who capture the unworked-over immediacy of life before it has been cooled by ‘Art.’” Samuel Fuller was one of those people and The Crimson Kimono was one of those films. The opening is a triumph of grungy lyricism achieved through snaky cutting and blunt composi"

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