Directed by Samuel Fuller • 1955 • United States
Starring Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Samuel Fuller makes explosive use of the widescreen frame in this dynamic thriller shot entirely on location in postwar Tokyo. Down-and-out ex-GI Eddie (Robert Stack) arrives in Tokyo and, while trying to make some quick cash by shaking down pachinko parlor owners, falls in with the gang run by ruthless racketeer Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan at his charmingly sociopathic best). But not all is as it seems—Eddie’s got a secret that threatens to tear Sandy’s gang apart, culminating in an eye-popping amusement-park climax high amid the Tokyo rooftops.
Directed by Samuel Fuller • 1963 • United States
Starring Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans
In SHOCK CORRIDOR, the great American writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and madness. Seeking a Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett (Pe...
Directed by Samuel Fuller • 1964 • United States
Starring Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante
The setup is pure pulp: A former prostitute (a crackerjack Constance Towers) relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But in the strange, hallucinat...
Directed by Mika Kaurismäki • 1994 • Brazil, Finland
Starring Jim Jarmusch, Samuel Fuller
In 1954, Hollywood maverick Samuel Fuller traveled to the Brazilian jungle to scout locations for an adventure film called TIGRERO that was to star John Wayne, Ava Gardner, and Tyrone Power—a project that w...
