Category: The Crimson Kimono

  • ‘The Crimson Kimono’: Big Crime in Little Tokyo

    ‘The Crimson Kimono’: Big Crime in Little Tokyo

    Tawdry newspaper headlines bark out plot twists in ‘The Crimson Kimono’ (1959). Director, producer and writer Samuel Fuller photographs the streets of downtown L.A. stunningly in “The Crimson Kimono,“ a film that’s part mystery, part love triangle and part travelogue. We get to see the downtown exteriors, particularly Little Tokyo as it looked in 1959,…