Kureji no buchamukure daihakken

**Kureji no buchamukure daihakken** (クレージーのぶちゃむくれ大発見, *Crazy Chubby Discovery*) is a 1969 Japanese comedy film directed by Kengo Furusawa and starring the Crazy Cats as the 12th installment of Operation Crazy Series.

## Plot

Daigoro Hanakawado of Tozai Denki is busy selling computers every day and visit to the high-class club "Anburera" to entertain customers. Hiroshi Uemura, a floor manager who went to Tozai Denki to collect the receivables of the most popular hostess, Yoshiko, persuaded programmer Akira Tanii to transfer Hanakawado's Tsuke and operate the computer. However, by mistake, all the profits of Tozai Denki were credited to Yoshiko's account, and the important Yoshiko is missing. The three people in a hurry are the "Sunset Secret Detective Agency" (SSDA) run by Detective Inumaru who quit the police because he was disgusted with the computer investigation and Tomeyoshi Yaesakura who stopped the thief because all the crimes were read by the computer and request for an investigation.

However, Yoshiko who was finally found murdered by someone who worked at the hotel. With the cooperation of Dr. Ishiwatari, an authority on surgery, the three people who wanted to withdraw money from the bank without being noticed by the company succeeded in transplanting an artificial brain to Yoshiko and reviving it. He went to the bank with his child and thought that he would be relieved to withdraw all the money in his account, but the three were arrested on suspicion of embezzlement of public money. It was Yoshiko who came to pick up the three released after the doubts cleared. The three have Yoshiko take lessons and start selling as talents.

## Staff

* Producers: Shin Watanabe, Mikihiko Ômori
* Director: Kengo Furusawa
* Screenwriter: Yasuo Tanami
* Music Composer: Naozumi Yamamoto
* Cinematographer: Senkichi Nagai
* Editor: Yoshitami Kuroiwa
* Production Designer: Kazuo Ogawa
* Costume Designer: Etsuko Yagyu
* Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Yoshisuke Kawasaki
* Sound Department: Hisashi Shimonaga (sound effects editor), Nobuyuki Tanaka (sound recordist)
* Special Effects: Hiroshi Matsuda
* Camera and Electrical Department: Mitsuo Kaneko (lighting technician), Yoshinori Sekiguchi (assistant camera), Shôji Ueda (assistant camera)

## Cast

* Hitoshi Ueki as Hiroshi Uemura
* Kei Tani as Akira Tanii
* Hajime Hana as Daigoro Hanakawado
* Hiroshi Inuzuka as Detective Inumaru
* Senri Sakurai as Yaesakura Tomeyoshi
* Shin Yasuda as Anzai
* Ētarō Ishibashi as Dr. Ishiwatari
* Mari Nakayama as Yoshiko Amano
* Masumi Harukawa as Wakako Hanakawa
* Chikako Urashima as Tsuyuko (Club Madam)
* Akira Hitomi as Director Nakajima
* Eijirō Tōno as Onikuma
* Osami Nabe as Patient
* Kazuo Kumakura as Policeman
* Yukio Aoshima as Toyo TV Station staff
* Masao Komatsu as Actor
* Nadao Kirino as Managing Director Akazawa
* Cha Katō as Collector
* Naozumi Yamamoto as President Oki (Cameo appearance)
* Toyohiko Sata as General Manager of Advertising Department, Oki Advertising Company
* Wataru Ōmae as Akazawa's driver
* Naoya Kusakawa, Yukihiko Gondo, Seishirō Kuno, Kōichi Satō as Onikuma's subordinates
* Yoshio Katsube as Hotel receptionist
* Sachiko Mori as White silver bank receptionist
* Naoko Tsubokura as Maiko Hanakawado
* Shin Otomo as Club manager Onuki
* Hisaya Ito as Toyama
* Yoshifumi Tajima as Investigative Section Manager

## Theme Songs・Insert Songs

**Drops Of Love** (恋のしずく, *Koi no shizuku*)

* Lyrics: Kazumi Yasui
* Composer: Masaaki Hirao
* Performer: Hitoshi Ueki・Mari Nakayama ※Yukari Ito was auditioned for the song, but was cast in ashita ([1])

**I'm On Sale** (俺は売り出し中, *Ore wa uridashi-chū*)

* Lyrics: Akari Yamaguchi
* Composer: Naozumi Yamamoto
* Performer: Hitoshi Ueki

**You Who Seem To Be Lonely** (淋しそうなあなた, *Sabishi-sōna anata*)

* Songwriter & Composer: Masaaki Hirao
* Supplementary lyrics: Kazumi Yasui
* Performer: Mie Nakao※ No appearance of Nakao (Mari Nakayama sings the first line and the only audio is used)

**Big Is Good** (大きいことはいいことだ, *Ōkī koto wa ī kotoda*)

* Lyrics: Nao Murase
* Composer: Naozumi Yamamoto
* Performer: Crazy Cats・Naozumi Yamamoto

Sung for a moment with cappella, leading to the following "Gunkan March" (軍艦マーチ, *Gunkan Māchi*) -"Laughing, Laughing and Happy" (笑って笑って幸せに, *Warattewaratte shiawase ni*). The original song is a commercial jingle for Morinaga & Co.'s "Ale Chocolate" starring Yamamoto as the songwriter.

**Laugh, Laugh And Be Happy** (笑って笑って幸せに, *Warattewaratte shiawaseni*)

* Lyrics: Akari Yamaguchi
* Composer: Masaaki Hirao
* Arrangement: Hiroaki Hagiwara
* Performer: Crazy Cats

Theme song and the camera was brought to the parade of the "Ginza Festival" held at that time, and it was sung in the last scene shot with the participation of Crazy Cats members. It was produced around 1968 and was shown on TV programs such as the "Ueki Show", but at that time, the record was not released. The version used in this work in 1993 was recorded on the assumption that the record will be released in 1995 (the one that was copied and left in monaural on the music tape of this work. There are solos by all the members, and the arrangements (composed by Kenichiro Morioka) are also different), each of which has been made into a CD. By the way, in this scene, Furusawa's 18th "kōshinkyoku (軍艦行進曲, officially *March "Man-Of-War*)" is played first, and it is connected to the same song without interruption.

## Simultaneous screening

"Furesshuman wakadaishô"

* Screenwriter: Yasuo Tanami / Director: Jun Fukuda / Starring: Yūzō Kayama

This is the 15th part of the "Wakadaishō series" and the first work since it became a "worker edition".
This was the last crossover between the Crazy Movies and the "Wakadaishō Series" (and starring Yūzō Kayama).

## References

* Korakuen Hotel - Used for the final battle between Uemura and the Akazawa Gang.