Fuller's crime film about two detectives is one big mess. The story is about a stripper who is gunned down on a busy street of Los Angeles and since it's a Sam Fuller movie he literally had a stripper running down a busy street. The two detectives, one a Caucasian the other a Japanese American are assigned to solve the murder. The detectives actually live together in some sort of weird gay subtext which Fuller raises and then drops rather quickly.
Both of the detectives fall in love with a portrait painter who helps them solve the case. At this point the movie switches course and becomes the story of an interracial romance. The interracial romance causes the Japanese detective to turn into some kind of reverse racist and he attempts to beat his friend to death during a kendo match. The movie ends with a chase through a Chinatown parade where the Japanese detective shoots the killer of the stripper and simultaneously sees the error of his reverse racist ways.
This film was a total mess, but interesting.
98 minutes
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