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House of Bamboo

Jul 01, 1955 | IMDB 6.1

102 min Watch Now

Crime, Drama

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.

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Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell, Brad Dexter, Sessue Hayakawa, Biff Elliot, Sandro Giglio, Elko Hanabusa, John Doucette

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