Mission to Tokyo (1966)
"Atout coeur à Tokyo pour O.S.S. 117" (original title)

US 24, an American Navy base in a small island in the Pacific, is annihilated. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a French aristocrat that is also a secret agent, OSS 117, is sent to Tokyo to ... See full summary »

Director:

Michel Boisrond

Writers:

Jean Bruce (novel), Terence Young (adaptation),

Stars:

Frederick Stafford, Marina Vlady, Jitsuko Yoshimura

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Frederick Stafford	...	Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, alias OSS 117
Marina Vlady	...	Eva Wilson
Jitsuko Yoshimura	...	Tetsuko
Jacques Legras	...	M. Chan
Valéry Inkijinoff	...	Yekota
Henri Serre	...	John Wilson
Mario Pisu	...	Vargas
Colin Drake	...	Babcock
Billy Kearns	...	M. Smith
Hiroshi Kato
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi	...	(as Kan Nihonyanagi)
Hiroshi Minami
Del Negro
Bert Bertram	...	Gen. Forster
Jean Lemaître

Storyline

US 24, an American Navy base in a small island in the Pacific, is annihilated. Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a French aristocrat that is also a secret agent, OSS 117, is sent to Tokyo to investigate who did it. Soon, he finds out that a cypher girl in the American embassy had passed vital information to a Japanese gang. Eva Davidson confesses to him that she did that under cohertion, and is now ready to cooperate. OSS 117 will pretend to be Eva's husband, to better cover the contacts between her and the gang that is pursuing more information about a second naval base. Each step is a battle for his life, and he suspects that Eva may have not tell the whole truth.

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Plot Keywords:

secret agent | acronym in title | fifth part | code name | spy | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Details

Country:

France Italy

Language:

French

Release Date:

28 October 1966 (France)

Also Known As:

O.S.S. 117 - Terror in Tokyo

Filming Locations:

Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

CMV Produzione Cinematografica, Compagnie Cinématographique de France, P.A.C.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Follows OSS 117: Mission for a Killer (1965)

User Reviews

Passable but boring Euro spy flick

The French answer to James Bond is back. And this time he travels to Tokyo and battles international terrorists. This film does have some things going for it: Frederick Stafford is a good enough spy lead (I'll take his OSS 117 over Timothy Dalton's 007 any day!), the cast includes a French mega-babe (Marina Vlady) and a Japanese super-cutie (Jitsuko Yoshimura), there are some enjoyable fight scenes, and the Oriental setting actually predates Connery's "You Only Live Twice" by one year! Despite all that, however, the film is a bit of a bore. It is VERY slow-moving and lacks a strong central villain. The filmmakers probably stretched the budget as far as it could go, but in comparison to the Bond pictures of the time, they still came up short. They just about beat "Diamonds Are Forever", though. (**)