Athens and I love it when Robert Ryan plays bad guys! (Cf. The Naked Spur, Crossfire, Act of Violence, Beware, My Lovely, Bad Day at Black Rock...) He's pretty despicable in House of Bamboo as the head of a quasi-military gang of crooks in postwar Tokyo. While you're not sympathetic to him, you always care what's going on inside his head—as when he realizes he's executed as a traitor the wrong crony (Cameron Mitchell, who dies rather spectacularly in his hot tub). Ryan's Sandy also goes out in remarkably vicious style, slinging lead into a crowd of Tokyo carnival-goers with no regard for any innocents who might get caught in the crossfire. A magnificent bastard, just like Athens (without A's lovable side, though...)!
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