Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi
Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (国際秘密警察 鍵の鍵, International Secret Police: Key of Keys), also known as Key of Keys, is a 1965 Japanese comedy-spy film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi.[1] It is the fourth installment of five films in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, a parody of James Bond-style spy movies.
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Directed by | Senkichi Taniguchi |
Produced by | Shin Morita Tomoyuki Tanaka |
Written by | Hideo Ando |
Starring | Tatsuya Mihashi Akiko Wakabayashi Mie Hama Tadao Nakamaru Susumu Kurobe Sachio Sakai Hideyo Amamoto Tetsu Nakamura Akemi Kita |
Music by | Sadao Bekku |
Cinematography | Kazuo Yamada |
Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Woody Allen used this film, combined with footage from the third installment Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kayaku no taru (国際秘密警察:火薬の樽, International Secret Police: Keg of Gunpowder), to create his directorial debut, What's Up, Tiger Lily?, in which the original dialogue is redubbed in English to make the plot about a secret egg salad recipe.[2][3][4][5]
Plot
Kitami is requested by the intelligence director, Suritai, to steal a large amount of money from the anti-government guerrillas who fund gangs from Gegen. However, once Kitami infiltrates a Gegen ship in disguise, he discovers there is no cash in the safe, only a cipher on a piece of paper.
Cast
- Tatsuya Mihashi as Agent Jiro Kitami[1]
- Akiko Wakabayashi as White Orchid,[1]
- Mie Hama as Miichin/Mi Chen[1][6]
- Tadao Nakamaru as Gegen[1]
- Susumu Kurobe[1] as He-Qing Cai
- Sachio Sakai as Inagawa[1]
- Hideyo Amamoto as Ikeguchi[1]
- Tetsu Nakamura as Suritai[1]
- Akemi Kita as Yoko[1]
- Shoji Oki as Dorodo[1]
- Monica Bead as Barro[1]
- Nadao Kirno as Cho[1]
- Koji Uruki as Ton Won men[1]
- J. Jones as white woman[1]
- Seiji Ikeda[1]
- Hiroshi Akitsu[1]
- Akira Kishoji[1]
References
- Stuart Galbraith IV (16 May 2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.
- Woody Allen (2006). Woody Allen: Interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-57806-793-0.
- Robert G. Weiner; Shelley E. Barba (4 March 2011). In the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology and the Culture of Riffing. McFarland. pp. 226–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8572-7.
- Markus Nornes (2007). Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema. U of Minnesota Press. pp. 269–. ISBN 978-0-8166-5041-5.
- Richard W. Kroon (30 April 2014). A/V A to Z: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms. McFarland. pp. 406–. ISBN 978-0-7864-5740-3.
- Tom Lisanti; Louis Paul (10 April 2002). Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973. McFarland. pp. 143–. ISBN 978-0-7864-1194-8.