Ore ni sawaru to abunaize (1966)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Yasuharu Hasebe

Writers:

Ryuzo Nakanishi (writer)
Michio Tsuzuki (novel)

Release Date:

12 February 1966 (Japan)

Genre:

Thriller | Crime | Action

Plot Keywords:

Spy | Based On Novel

Cast

Akemi Kita	...	Akiko
Mieko Nishio	...	Fuyuko
Bokuzen Hidari	...	Momochi
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eiji Go	...	Sabu
Akira Kobayashi	...	Daisuke Hondo
Toshizô Kudô
Chieko Matsubara	...	Yoriko Sawanouchi
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi	...	Okada
Kaku Takashina	...	Detective Toyama

Also Known As:

Black Tight Killers (USA)
Don't Touch Me I'm Dangerous

Runtime:

USA:87 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Nikkatsu

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Chik loh go yeung (1992)

The Fun is mostly in the look

This is a fun film to watch just for the look, the Japanese go-go dancers and the "black tights" girl gang. As for the story, well, it's there but it pretty much takes a back seat and isn't anything to get too worked up about. That is, if you can really follow it. I guess this is kind of a Japanese "Matt Helm" type film, a sort of spy meets 60's pop art kind of thing. The story, such as it is, is a reporter on his way home from duty in Saigon, meets up with a stewardess on the plane and asks her out for a date, where she's promptly kidnapped after dinner. Most of the rest of the film consists of trying to figure out who did it, why, and getting her back. There's a gang of girls that wear black tights & use Ninja chewing gum bullets, deadly tape measures and other such things, which are pretty cool. Also there's guys in trench coats, sinister, of course, but who are they and what is their quest? Overall I was a bit disappointed because I sort of expected better from what I read & heard but this film still has a good look and feel to it and I guess the plot is pretty secondary to everything else. Also had a bit of trouble with the subtitles as white on white gets a bit hard to read sometimes. Maybe the key elements of the story were lost on me due to this, but probably not. 7 out of 10.