Kiyoshi Nishimura question - Hairpin Circus / Red Target

[Jasper Sharp]

Does anyone know anything about the director Kiyoshi Nishimura, more specifically, his two films Red
Target (Bara
no hyoteki) and Highway
Circuit a.k.a. Hairpin Circus (Heapin saakasu), both from 1972. It seems to me, flicking through the Unijapan catalogues of that year, that they were both shot in Hong Kong/Macao, but I'm wandering if this was actually the case.The reason I ask is that the Unijapan catalogue mentions both were shot in Eastman Color, but from this period, almost all of Toho's films were shot in Fujicolor (except those such as Shinoda’s
The Scandalous Adventures
of Buraiken that were shot in Panavision) - so there must be a reason they were shot in Eastmancolor, and if they were shot on location in Hong Kong (Shaw Brothers used Eastman Color, for example), this this would sort of make sense. Or maybe I'm barking up a completely nonsensical tree here...
 

 


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