Storyline

In post-World War II Tokyo, Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is on a U.S. Army special assignment to investigate a murderous clique led by ex-soldier Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan). Kenner ingratiates himself with Dawson and his inner circle, gaining their trust while starting a relationship with Mariko (Shirley Yamaguchi), the wife of a murdered gang member. But the sinister Dawson suspects there's a traitor among them when the police are tipped off about a planned robbery.

Plot Keywords

soldier, crime boss, gang member, woman, police officer, brooding, intense, suspenseful, emotional, japan, tokyo, train robbery, racketeering, murder, desertion, deception, undercover operations, quest, forbidden love, sacrifice, rivalry, 1950s

Short Review

decision to relocate events to postwar, post-Occupation Japan & to shoot there too... introduc[ed] a new geopolitical dimension to all the duplicitous plotting. Fuller also brought this noir out of the past by filming in CinemaScope & DeLuxe Colour.

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