Kureji sakusen: Sentehisshô

**Kureji sakusen: Sentehisshô** (クレージー作戦 先手必勝, *Crazy Strategy First Win*) is a 1963 Japanese comedy film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu. It stars Japan's comedic jazz group The Crazy Cats as their first film. Another movie was released in theater was Warring Clans (directed by Kihachi Okamoto). The catch phrase is "A US-Soviet conflict in a couple quarrel!"

## Kureji sakusen: Sentehisshô

### Produced by

Shin Morita
Shin Watanabe

### Starring

Hajime Hana and the Crazy Cats
Junko Ikeuchi

### Music by

Hiroaki Hagiwara
Hiroshi Miyagawa

## Overview

As for Crazy Cats, all members of the group appeared in the earlier Toho hit movies "Nippon Irresponsible Era" and "Nippon Irresponsible Guy", but they only starring Hitoshi Ueki. However, due to the success of these two films, Toho producer Sanezumi Fujimoto proposed to Watanabe Productions to create a movie series in which Crazy Cats appeared as a group. As a result, this film was produced as the first installment in a collaboration with Toho and the Watanabe Productions. As a result, management president Shin Watanabe was credited as the producer, and Watanabe Productions exclusive talents other than the Crazy Cats also appeared, and Mie Nakao appeared in this film.

In addition, the works in which all the Crazy Cats appear after this film would be later be called "Strategy Series". Director Seiji Hisamatsu, who was in charge of the "Ekimae Series," which is a simultaneous screening of "Irresponsible Era" and "Irresponsible Guy" (this is the only crazy movie that Hisamatsu worked on).

Other than Nakao, the co-stars are Junko Ikeuchi, who was a regular in the "Ekimae Series" and co-starred with Nakao and the Crazy Cats in "Yume de aimashō", and Keiko Awaji and Tatsuo Matsumura, who co-starred in "Wakai kisetsu" (Matsumura said "Irresponsible Age"). Co-starring in the "Shacho Series" are Daisuke Kato, rakugoka Kingorō Yanagiya, stage comedian Mutoshi Happa, and young singer Kyu Sakamoto, are also appeared as cameo. Kyu did appears as a cameo in the same role as a laundry shop in "Kigeki Ekimae danchi" and "Kigeki Ekimae bentō".

A stage version of the same title was also made and performed at the Umeda Arts Theater in Osaka.

## Plot

Hitoshi Ueda, who was born in Haccho, started a business without the capital permission, and a arbitrator for fights. Seven like-minded men, Ikki Tousen, have gathered for a meeting. The president is Ueda, and the managing director Hanaki is a Kunisada Chuji's gangster style, and the acting of crying with a baby face is exquisite. If he hear a quarrel, Hanaki will jump out. At first, there was a lot of arbitration between dog fights and couples, and everyone had free time every day.

Mie Nakayama, who jumped in, brought in the housing complex Madam and the shopping district. Sole and Tenyawanya's crazy strategy opened the store for the first time. However, in the entanglement of Daifuku Finance's president Gonbei and his mistress Keiko, some people said that they were deceived and did not benefit from a single sentence. Now that the application for arbitration has not been withdrawn, Mie was indignant at the air inside the company, which was getting fuller as the money was getting better.

The cutlets were put in and everyone regained their vitality, and the police rushed into the place where they were enthusiastic for the sake of the world, people, and world peace. When arrested for fraud and hype, they were all sneaked into a pig box without knowing what was going on. It was a request letter in Russian that came to Ueda, and apparently, US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev asked for a solution to the international crisis, so the crazy advance of Operation Crazy never stopped.

## Cast

* Hitoshi Ueki as Hitoshi Ueda
* Hajime Hana as Hanaki Hajime
* Shin Yasuda as Yasui Shin
* Kei Tani as Keitaro Tanimura
* Hiroshi Inuzuka as Hiroshi Inukai
* Senri Sakurai as Chisato Sakura
* Êtarô Ishibashi as Eitaro Ishiyama
* Junko Ikeuchi as Omasaru
* Mie Nakao as Mie Nakayama
* Kingorō Yanagiya as Ryuhei Yamakataya
* Mutoshi Happa as Kōkichi Yamakataya
* Yukari Uehara as Miyuki Yamakataya
* Akemi Ohmori as Michiko Yoshimura
* Daisuke Katō as Gonbei Daifuku
* Tsuruko Mano as Fukuko Daifuku
* Keiko Awaji as Bar Madam Keiko
* Tatsuo Matsumura as Mr. Yamano
* Sadako Sawamura as Mrs. Yamano
* Kiyomi Mizunoya as Madam Mitsue of beauty salon
* Kyōko Kozakura as Hairdresser assistant
* Toki Shiozawa as Female customer of the beauty salon
* Kenzô Tabu as Greengrocer
* Yaeko Wakamizu as Greengrocer's wife
* Masahiko Shimazu as Taro, Greengrocer's son
* Shigeki Ishida as Detective Yamaguchi
* Chūzaburō Wakamiya as Chairman of the station square store association
* Kan Yanagiya as Ueda chief
* Kanta Kisaragi as Uotoku
* Ikio Sawamura as Focus Camera Managing Director Oki
* Toyohiko Sata as Focus Camera Manager Kameoka
* Toranosuke Ogawa as President of Patch Recamera
* Kyu Sakamoto as Laundry shop costumer Kyu-chan
* Jun'ichirô Mukai as The big man
* Senkichi Omura as The little man
* Hiroshi Takagi as Ueyoshi's bodyguard
* Rikie Sanjô, Yoshiko Miyata as Housing complex ladies
* Mitsuo Tsuda as President of Perfect Camera

## Staff

* Producers: Shin Morita, Shin Watanabe
* Writer: Keiichiro Ryu
* Director: Seiji Hisamatsu
* Cinematographer: Masao Tamai
* Music Composers: Hiroaki Hagiwara, Hiroshi Miyagawa
* Production Designer: Kiyoshi Shimizu
* Production Management: Toshiaki Hashimoto (unit production manager), Takushi Inoue (executive in charge of production)
* Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Ryô Kinoshita (chief assistant director), Seiji Tani (second assistant director), Hirakichi Tsushima (third assistant director)
* Film Editor: Eiji Ooi
* Sound Department: Kanae Masua (sound recordist), Hisashi Shimonaga (sound effects editor)
* Special Effects: Hiroshi Matsuda
* Camera and Electrical Department: Tsuruzô Nishikawa (lighting technician)

## Songs

* "Various Sections" (いろいろ節, *Iroiro setsu*)

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Hitoshi Ueki

* "Skinny Manbushi" (やせがまん節, *Yase gaman-bushi*)

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Hitoshi Ueki

* "This Is The Way A Man Lives" (これが男の生きる道, *Kore ga otoko no ikiru michi*)

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Hitoshi Ueki

* "Don't Clause" (ドント節, *Donto-bushi*)

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Hitoshi Ueki

* "Fifty Thousand Verses-Summary Song" (五万節―まとめやの歌, *Gomanbushi ― matome ya no uta*)

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Crazy Cats

* "Operation Crazy Theme" (クレージー作戦のテーマ, *Kurējī sakusen no tēma*)

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Crazy Cats

* "Hondara March" (ホンダラ行進曲, *Hondarakō shinkyoku*)

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Crazy Cats