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Satsujin kyo jidai - (aka: Epoch of Murder Madness) Director Kihachi Okamoto's black comedy/action/satire masterpiece.

Twenty years after the end of World War II, international agents try to apprehend the world's largest diamond in this offbeat spy comedy. An eight year-old boy had the diamond sewn inside him during the war to smuggle the bauble out of the country. A mad scientists tortures one of the former Nazi guards to learn the identity of the now-adult diamond carrier. When one agent dies, a female spy uses her feminine wiles to seduce the scientist and......

To reveal much more of the plot would be doing a disservice to this wonderful film. It winds up taking more twists and turns than almost any other movie that comes to mind. It is a dizzying wonder to behold, right up to it's final shot.

Director: Kihachi Okamoto

Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Dan and Hideo Sunazuka

1967 - JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES - B&W - 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 99 MINUTES