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As far as I was aware, the film was a Nikkatsu-Shaw co-production and so not two different versions.</div>
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Nikkatsu have basic details on their own website, but the film is not on any home viewing format in Japan:
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However, a lot of the Shaw Bros films were released on DVD about 15 years ago, including this one, although it might be hard to find at the moment: <a href="https://www.badpandashop.com/products/asia-pol-1967-region-3-dvd-english-subtitled-shaw-brothers" id="LPlnk856457">https://www.badpandashop.com/products/asia-pol-1967-region-3-dvd-english-subtitled-shaw-brothers</a></div>
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Akinori made quite a few films in Hong Kong. In fact, I don't think his Japanese work is particularly well known or available at the moment - I don't think I've ever seen any of it, but I do have his Shaw Bros production Lady Professional, from 1971, which
features Lily Ho as an assassin running around Hong Kong and Japan disguised in a nun's outfit. Actually, these Shaw Bros films from Japanese directors do tend to look awfully like Nikkatsu films, Umetsugu Inoue's Venus Tears Diamond being a case in point
- a great comic heist movie that even features a scene at the Osaka Expo. Would love to research these further myself had I time time and resources.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> 24 April 2019 04:56<br>
<b>To:</b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Earl Jackson<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [KineJapan] Asiapol Secret Service</font>
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<div>Apparently Matsuo Akinori directed a film in Chinese in Hong Kong called Asiapol Secret Service but also made a Japanese version concurently, starring Shichido Joe, Asaoka Ruriko, and Nitani Hideaki in 1966. Does anyone know if this has ever become available
in any medium at all?</div>
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