The Spiders: Wild Scheme A-Go Go

***The Spiders: Wild Scheme A-Go Go*** (ザ・スパイダースのゴーゴー向う見ず作戦, _Za Supaidasu no gôgô utau mizu sakusen_), also known as ***The Spiders' the Reckless Operation***, is a 1967 Japanese musical comedy film directed by Buichi Saito and produced by Nikkatsu.

## Plot

When Ken's lover Chino won the amateur song contest, Chino replied to the moderator's question that if there was a person who had no lover yet but went straight to his place over all obstacles, she would accept courtship. Chino said so to encourage Ken. However, the young people of the seven-member group (starring The Spiders), who were watching TV in Yokohama, they began to march straight towards Tokyo, inspired by Chino's advice. They broke through the large glass of a coffee shop, proceeded through a crossroads of cars, caused a six-fold collision, and tried to pass through the police station on the way, but they were charges of ignoring signals, invading peoples houses, and damaging property. This cause the police to arrested the group. However, Jun and his friends were pardoned, saying they just wanted to walk straight.

On the other hand, Ken was encouraged by his bandmate Koji and decided to walk straight to Chino's house, which was next to the three houses, but Professor Mikami, who lives right next to his house, refused Ken to see his daughter, so he tried to force it again. Ken gave up the halfway plan because he was caught in the security bell of the Mikami family. Around that time, the eccentricity of the seven-member group finally began to become a hot topic in the news and headlines. A news photographer take several photographs of these seven members, and a critic praised them as "A young men who longs for a straight line", which became a national topic. However, the seven young men were not pleased with such a false name at all, and just continued walking for the purpose.

Ken knew about the seven-member group on TV, and couldn't help but courageously digged a tunnel bellow of Chino's house with his father's words to take Chino. By the time Ken worked hard day and night digging a tunnel, the seven young men were approaching Chino's house at the last moment. Koji and his colleagues, who saw him as in jeopardy, quickly stopped in front of the seven-member group and hindered their progress, so Ken rushed to Chino's house by a small margin. Chino was so impressed with his health that she hugged him tightly. On the other hand, the lagging seven-member group, admitting defeat, went straight away toward the sun, which was about to set with a rainbow appeared at the end of the film.

## Cast

- Shochi Tanabe as Shōchi
- Takayuki Inoue as Takayuki
- Jun Inoue as Jun
- Masaaki Sakai as Masaaki
- Katsuo Ohno as Katsuo
- Hiroshi Kamayatsu as Hiroshi
- Mtsuru Kato as Kato
- Ken Yamauchi as Ken
- Koji Wada as Koji
- Hajime Sugiyama as Eisuke
- Masahiro Kinoshita as Mitsuhiko
- Chieko Matsubara as Chino
- Kenzo Shimamura as TV presenter
- Shinzo Shibata as TV station staff Sugai
- Asao Uchida as Professor Mikami
- Reiko Arai as Mrs. Mikami
- Bontaro Taira as Master
- Edith Hanson as Wife
- Kompei Hayashiya as Maotoko
- Kingorō Yanagiya as Ken's father
- Village Singers
- Eiji Go as Cowboy actor
- Buichi Satio as director himself
- Toyoko Takechi as Old woman
- Kōji Nakata, Hiroya Ishimaru, Michihiro Ikemizu, Masaru Ikeda, Keizo Kawasaki, Seiichirô Kameishi as Police officers
- Tomo'o Nagai as Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police
- Eiji Muto as Police commander
- Kiyoshi Komiyama as News reporter
- Masaaki Tsukada as Store robber
- Hiroko Maruyama as Store hostage
- Eiko Masuyama, Haruko Kitahama, Midori Katō, Tomoe Hiiro as Teahouse servants
- Masako Ebisu, Sumie Sakai, Kazuko Sugiyama, Chinatsu Nakayama, Isao Sakuma, Keiichi Noda, Taichirō Hirokawa, Nachi Nozawa as Bystanders

## Staff

- Producer: Hideo Sasai
- Screenwriters: Sô Kuramoto, Akira Saiga
- Director: Buichi Saito
- Cinematographer: Yoshihiro Yamazaki
- Music Composer: Taiichirô Kosugi
- Production Designer: Kimihiko Nakamura
- Sound Recordist: Saburô Takahashi
- Lighting Technician: Mitsuo Ônishi
- Photographer: Masao Bando
- Editor: Mitsuo Kondo

## Infobox (film)

- **name**: The Spiders: Wild Scheme A-Go Go
- **director**: Buichi Saito, Buichi Saitô
- **producer**: Hideo Sasai
- **writer**: Sô Kuramoto
Akira Saiga
- **starring**: :en:The_Spiders_(Japanese_band), The Spiders
Ken Yamauchi
:en:Chieko_Matsubara, Chieko Matsubara
- **music**: Taichirô Kosugi
- **cinematography**: Yoshihiro Yamazaki
- **distributor**: Nikkatsu
- **runtime**: 81 minutes
- **country**: Japan
- **language**: Japanese