Category Archives: Crime fiction and film from Japan

Pulp Friday: spy pulp part 2, Assignment Asia

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Andrew Nette| 5 Comments

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of James Bond, last week’s Pulp Friday was a selection of spy themed pulp covers. This week’s post takes us to one of the main battlegrounds for pulp spies in the sixties and seventies – … Continue reading →

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Posted in Coronet Books, Crime fiction and film from China, Crime fiction and film from India, Crime fiction and film from Japan, Crime fiction and film from Singapore, Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Pulp, Pulp fiction in the 70s and 80s, Pulp fiction set in Asia, Pulp Friday, Pulp paperback cover art, Spies, Vintage pulp paperback covers

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Blackmail Is My Life

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Andrew Nette| Leave a comment

A couple of nights ago I finally got around to viewing a film that’s been on my must-watch pile of DVDs for ages, Kinji Fukasaku’s Blackmail Is My Life. Regular Pulp Curry readers will know I have a bit of a … Continue reading →

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Street Mobster

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Andrew Nette| Leave a comment

Kinji Fukasaku’s Street Mobster focuses on the short, fast life of Isamu Okita (Bunta Sugawara), a chinpira or low–level street punk with no firm gang allegiance, trying to carve out a criminal living in an unknown Japanese city sometime after World War … Continue reading →

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Yakuza Graveyard (and the start of my journey into Japanese crime cinema)

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Andrew Nette| Leave a comment
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For someone who hosts a blog on crime fiction and film from Australia and Asia, I have to admit I’ve seen very few Japanese Yakuza films. Indeed, one of my New Year resolutions for 2011 is to make some serious … Continue reading →

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Mr Fuller goes to Tokyo

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Andrew Nette| Leave a comment

Sam Fuller’s 1955 movie House of Bamboo isn’t one of the greatest film noirs ever made but it’s in there for one of the most interesting, and despite its flaws I have found myself watching it over again. All the elements … Continue reading →

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Posted in Crime fiction and film from Japan, Crime film, Film Noir, Heist films, Robert Ryan, Samuel Fuller

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