Ore ni sawaru to abunaize - Filmed
in delirious pop-art color and directed like a live-action comic book, this
tongue-in-cheek Japanese spy thriller plays like a surreal cliffhanger serial
dropped into swinging Tokyo and zipped through on fast-forward.
Go-go-dancing female assassins in form-fitting black leather
bedevil a globetrotting photographer as he battles the Yakuza thugs and American
gangsters who keep kidnapping his stewardess girlfriend. The women, armed with ninja chewing gum bullets, razor-sharp
phonograph records, and explosive golf balls, alternately flirt and fight it out
with our suave hero, while his doe-eyed innocent girlfriend is tied up and
staked out in one kinky trap after another. What he soon discovers is that everyone is after a cache of
gold hidden by his girlfriend’s late father immediately after World War II.
Outrageous set pieces and high-energy fight scenes, edited
with jackhammer rapidity and a giddy disdain for logic. Dig that crazy score of
jangly surf rock and funky jazz, and have a ball with the typo-riddled
subtitles--they become just another goofy element of this campy masterpiece.
Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe and based on the novel by Michio
Tsuzuki.
Stars: AKIRA KOBAYASHI, CHIEKO MATSUBARA - MIEKO NISHIO,
KOZUE KAMO
1966 - JAPANESE with ENGLISH SUBTITLES - COLOR - 16:9
ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 88 MINUTES
