Shirley Yamaguchi

[Pete Tombs]

HOUSE OF BAMBOO was shown on the BBC a year or so back in a (so far as I
recall) really good original ratio copy, I' m sure someone somewhere must
have recorded it.

----- Original Message -----
From: Lang Thompson <wlt4 at mindspring.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: Shirley Yamaguchi


> >(1952, King Vidor) on video, although there may be a copy of "House of
> >Bamboo" somewhere.
>
>
> There is (or was a few months back) a poor quality tape of "House of
> Bamboo" available.  It looked like it came from a panned-and-scanned 16mm
> print and even had a visible hair during 15 minutes of the film!  The
> company was something like Hellfire Video and they released a few other
> similar titles.  Undoubtedly these are bootlegs but were a tad more
> sophisticated than the usual bootleg companies.  (For one thing, it showed
> up in a local video store.)
>
> LT
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