Fuller combines two favorite topics, crime and GIs, with this gangster!nbsp;film involving crooked ex-soldiers organizing a syndicate in!nbsp;occupied Japan. Surly military cop Robert Stack goes undercover to!nbsp;infiltrate the cartel, led by the suavely psychotic Robert Ryan, and falls for the Japanese widow of a slain gangster. In the first postwar Hollywood!nbsp;film shot in Japan, astonishing CinemaScope images of Tokyo street life!nbsp;illuminate the backdrop for a new war, one between violent mobsters and!nbsp;vicious cops, with both sides displaying amazing lows in Ugly Americanism.!nbsp;The narrative quickly eliminates any moral ascendancy of cops over robbers,!nbsp;as generalized American thuggery runs riot amid a landscape of racial and cultural difference. "The police are much more violent and disagreeable!nbsp;than the criminals," Fuller explained, a point proved in the infamous!nbsp;ending, a blazing gunfight set in, of all places, a children's amusement park.-Jason Sanders