Kagi No Kag

[Aaron Gerow]

> I'm looking for a 1964 Japanese James Bond film, Kagi No Kag (Key of 
> Keys), which was redubbed and re-edited by Woody Allen into What's Up, 
> Tiger Lilly?

The film is actually Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi from 1965 
which stars Mihashi Tatsuya (the gang boss in Kitano's Dolls) and is 
directed by Taniguchi Senkichi. If I remember correctly, however, 
Allen's film actually uses two of the Kokusai himutsu keisatsu films 
(there were five of them): Kagi no kagi for the main story, and Kayaku 
no taru for the opening sequence. These were Toho productions, and is 
typical of Toho, have not come out on DVD in Japan.

Aaron Gerow
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Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University
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