Why settle for one when faith brings two

Why settle for one when faith brings two

This noir has it all — Los Angeles streets, buddy cops, beautiful women, love triangle, yearning, shadows, cigarettes, and chasing down a suspect who is never the perp but he was just too scared to talk.

This noir has it all — Los Angeles streets, buddy cops, beautiful women, love triangle, yearning, shadows, cigarettes, and chasing down a suspect who is never the perp but he was just too scared to talk.

Not as racist as expected

Not as racist as expected

first thoughts: sugar’s extensions were crazy bad!!!

mac best character in da movie!!!

the pool hall fight scene is so funny. the most ridiculous karate chops and kicks. (earlier in the movie, the same guy getting beat up picks up a cop over his head and tosses him into a pile of boxes. this movie rules.)

i also loved the cat scare, where someone just clearly tossed an orange tabby into frame. he seems confused af.

i wish this movie had subtitles beyond [speaking in japanese] for all the japanese parts but oh well i guess!! at the same time, very cool to see a 50s movie with themes of antiracism, with actual asian actors instead of white people in yellow face. 

bittersweet ending dawg

first thoughts: sugar’s extensions were crazy bad!!!

mac best character in da movie!!!

the pool hall fight scene is so funny. the most ridiculous karate chops and kicks. (earlier in the movie, the same guy getting beat up picks up a cop over his head and tosses him into a pile of boxes. this movie rules.)

i also loved the cat scare, where someone just clearly tossed an orange tabby into frame. he seems confused af.

i wish this movie had subtitles beyond [speaking in japanese] for all the japanese parts but oh well i guess!! at the same time, very cool to see a 50s movie with themes of antiracism, with actual asian actors instead of white people in yellow face. 

bittersweet ending dawg

A lovely sensitive romantic drama that also happens to have a hard-boiled noir side plot. Hard to imagine the respectful depiction of Japanese culture here to be anything but groundbreaking. While the racial tensions and fetishization play a small role, it’s primarily the threat of love and jealousy that generates most of the conflict. Gorgeously choreographed and stylishly edited, but what else could you expect from Sam Fuller.

A lovely sensitive romantic drama that also happens to have a hard-boiled noir side plot. Hard to imagine the respectful depiction of Japanese culture here to be anything but groundbreaking. While the racial tensions and fetishization play a small role, it’s primarily the threat of love and jealousy that generates most of the conflict. Gorgeously choreographed and stylishly edited, but what else could you expect from Sam Fuller.