Le kimono pourpre

Original title: The Crimson Kimono

1959
Approved
1h 22m

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

3.4K

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Crime Drama Mystery Romance Thriller

Two detectives seek a stripper's killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship.Two detectives seek a stripper's killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship.Two detectives seek a stripper's killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship.

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IMDb RATING

6.8/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win total

Mother
(as Barbara Hayden)

George Yoshinaga

Willy Hidaka

Kaye Elhardt

Aya Oyama

Sister Gertrude

George Okamura

Charlie

Ryosho S. Sogabe

Priest
(as Reverend Ryosho S. Sogabe)

Bob Okazaki

George Yoshinaga
(as Robert Okazaki)

Fuji

Shuto

Walter Burke

Ziggy
(uncredited)

Jack Carol

Man
(uncredited)

Director
- Samuel Fuller
Writer
- Samuel Fuller
All cast & crew
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Trivia
Only one Nisei received a Medal of Honor in the Korean War: Hiroshi H Miyamura. None of the 21 Nisei who received their Medal of Honor awards for heroism in World War II had received them by the time the film was made. The awards were granted in 2000, after a study revealed discrimination that caused them to be overlooked during the war.

Goofs
In the military graveyard, a grave marker says that the Nisei soldier had been awarded the "Congressional Medal of Honor". The name of the medal is properly named the "Medal of Honor"; the word "Congressional" is informal usage and would not appear on a grave marker in a military graveyard. However, this is a private cemetery and this is a private grave marker erected by the family, so it is engraved how the family wanted it to be.

Quotes
Mac: [to Det. Bancroft, after she has eagerly started drinking from his bottle of bourbon] Love does much... but bourbon does everything.

Crazy credits
During the main titles, the painting begins as a simple pencil outline. As the credits progress, more details are subtly added via dissolves until it is finally completed at the end of the sequence.

Connections
Featured in How to Commit Marriage (1969)

Soundtracks
Le nozze di Figaro
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Featured review

What a gem

I first saw this film on television really, really late one night...

At first glance it is a crime melodrama involving downtown Los Angeles, jealouys lovers and strippers...

However what Fuller has done is show a member of the urban sprawl that is Los Angeles that is rarely seen on film...that of the role of the Japanese-American in society and that alone makes it worth seeing the film...

However does anybody know if the film is available on any format? DVD? VHS?