Crimson Kimono, The (1959) - (Movie Clip) Down Here In Little Tokyo

Crimson Kimono, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Shall Have To Get Blotto

Writer-director Sam Fuller inter-cutting initial interviews for the L-A cop heroes, James Shigeta as Joe Kojaku and Glenn Corbett as Bancroft, investigating the murder of stripper “Sugar Torch,” with karate-champ friend Willy (George Yoshinaga) and committed bohemian artist Mac (Anna Lee), in The Crimson Kimono, 1959.

Crimson Kimono, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) A Lot Of Citizens Cave In

L-A police detective Bancroft (Glenn Corbett) has just asked artist Christine (Victoria Shaw) to attempt a sketch of a possible suspect who hired her to do an earlier painting linked to the spectacular murder of a stripper, in writer-producer-director Sam Fuller’s The Crimson Kimono, 1959.

Crimson Kimono, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) She Was Gonna Crack Vegas

After the spectacular opening shooting of a statuesque stripper on a downtown L-A street, writer-director-producer Sam Fuller introduces his two leading men, James Shigeta and Glenn Corbett, as war-buddies, roommates and police detective team Kojaku and Bancroft, interviewing the stripper’s manager (Paul Dubov), in The Crimson Kimono, 1959.

Crimson Kimono, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Sugar Torch Nudie Dolls

Credits then the shocker opening, which writer-producer-director Sam Fuller called one of the toughest he ever shot, with hidden cameras on location around Main St. & 6th in downtown L-A, Gloria Pall the featured act, in The Crimson Kimono, 1959, starring Victoria Shaw, James Shigeta and Glenn Corbett.