What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)

Taglines:

WOODY ALLEN'S lowdown on how to make a Chinese fortune 'kookie' See more »

Parents Guide:

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Country:

USA | Japan

Language:

Japanese | English

Release Date:

2 November 1966 (USA) See more »

Also Known As:

Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? See more »

Filming Locations:

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Production Co:

Benedict Pictures Corp., National Recording Studios, Toho Company See more »

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Runtime:

80 min  | Spain: 76 min (DVD edition)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Trivia

American International Pictures bought the 1965 Japanese film "Key of Keys" for $66,000. However, the studio quickly realized that it was far too confusing for Western audiences. AIP president Henry G. Saperstein came up with the idea of turning the original inscrutable thriller into a comedy by dubbing it with different dialogue. As Woody Allen had just scored an unexpected hit with his screenplay for What's New Pussycat, Saperstein hired him. See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: When the Port of Yokohama is shown, the captions call it "Yokahama". See more »

Quotes

Woody Allen: They wanted in Hollywood to make the definitive spy picture. And they came to me to supervise the project, you know, because I think that, if you know me at all, you know that death is my bread and danger my butter - oh, no, danger's my bread, and death is my butter. No, no, wait. Danger's my bread, death - no, death is - no, I'm sorry. Death is my - death and danger are my various breads and various butters.
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Crazy Credits

Woody Allen is laying on a couch eating an apple while a woman stripper is
taking her black dress and undergarments off in front of him. Meanwhile the
end credits scroll up on the right side of the screen. The credits say:
The characters and
events depicted in this
photoplay are fictitious.
Any similarity to actual
persons living or dead is
purely coincidental.
And if you have been
reading this instead of
looking at the girl, then
see your psychiatrist, or
go to a good eye doctor
(the credits now scroll faster and give and eye test):
E 1
FP 2
TOZ 3
LPED 4
PECFD 5
EDFCZP 6
FELOPZD 7
DEFPOTEC 8
LEFODPCT 9
FSFPTFED 10
????????? 11
By this time, the stripper is about to remove her underwear.
Woody stops her and says,
"I promised I'd put her in the film somewhere."
(only his voice is dubbed)
THE END (appears in the lower left) See more »

Connections

Edited from Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kayaku no taru (1964) See more »