Monsieur Zivaco

**Monsieur Zivaco** (クレージーの怪盗ジバコ, *Kurējī no kaitō jibako*) is a 1967 Japanese crime musical comedy film directed by Takashi Tsuboshima and starring the Crazy Cats. It was based on a original novel Phantom Thief Zivaco (怪盗ジバコ, *Kaitō Jibako*) written by Morio Kita. All the Crazy Cats members played the gentleman thief, Phantom Thief Zivaco, in the role of "Seven People Imitated Him." The 110-minute screening time of this work is the third longest running after 162 minutes of "Mexican Free-for-All" and 157 minutes of "Las Vegas Free-for-All", and the longest in the double-barreled work.

Another film that was release that same day was "Dorifutazu desu yo! Zenshin zenshin matazenshin" starring The Drifters and of course popluar group sound band The Tigers (Directed by Yoshinori Wada).

## Plot

Zivaco is a international phantom thief who steals things from around the world from the banks money in the United States to Imperial State Crown from Britain. His age, nationalities and physiognomy is unknown due to Interpol's unable to identified the thief. The thief came to Japan with a notice letter. After all, the phantom thief who can disguise himself from a gorilla to Marilyn Monroe. He can also unlock any locks that bankrupted every banks around the world 138 times and forced the cabinet members to resign three times due to any lack of evidence on behalf of Zivaco's whereabout. It was natural that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department had changed its color because the police chief who was dismissed for that reason did not know the number or clues.

Eventually, Zivaco, who went down to the Haneda Airport where the authorities were waiting, including detectives Jiro Suzuki and Shogoro Akechi. As they placed handcuffed him at the men restroom, Zivaco disguised himself as Detective Suzuki and managed to escape, but the police caught him as the real Detective Suzuki, and he got fired for letting Zivaco escape. At the airport the people welcomed the arrival of Alka Honne, an American businessman of W.C.W.C. (Worldwide Conference of World Cruising) to promoted industries with other entrepreneurs in Japan. On the same day, these foreigners who came on a tour in Japan are actually international thieves with Honne as the leader of the group. They were responsibility for stealing treasures from other countries and sell it in the black market.

Zivaco has informed investigators, including Detective Shogoro Akechi, that he will steal works of art that are a legacy of the Japanese people. In such an event, Nana Himeno, the president's secretary of the East-West Tourism, happened to spend the evening with Zivaco and convinced the news reporter to published the photo in the newspaper and became famous. Zivaco also remembers Nana's unprecedented emotions. He then sneaked into the Yamato Museum of Art, where he was aiming for prey, and was surprised to see the legendary golden sword owned by Minamoto no Yoshitsune. But it was a fake and the real sword was in the hands of the W.C.W.C. thieves. Zivaco, who stood up indignantly after being disgraced, offered to Suzuki for cooperation in order to crush the W.C.W.C. crew. The thieves didn't have a chance to fight the illusionary Zivaco, and Suzuki was also active, and he was exhausted. After that, Zivaco left the country again with Nana, who someday became in love with each other.

## Staff

* Producers: Shin Watanabe, Tadahito Gomyo
* Director: Takashi Tsuboshima
* Original Story: Morio Kita (Phantom Thief Jibaco), (Publication: Bungei Shunjū)
* Screenwriters: Yasuo Tanami, Kiichi Ichikawa
* Music Composer: Hiroshi Miyagawa
* Cinematographer: Masaharu Utsumi
* Production Designer: Shigekazu Ikuno
* Sound Department: Hisashi Shimonaga (sound effects editor), Norio Tone (sound recordist)
* Camera and Electrical Department: Shoshichi Kojima (lighting technician), Kôjirô Satô (lighting assistant)
* Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Masao Asano (chief assistant director), Kyohei Imamura (third assistant director)
* Editor: Ume Takeda
* Synthesis: Kazunobu Sanbe
* Photographer: Takashi Nakao
* Studio: TOHO STUDIOS
* Production: Toho, Watanabe Productions
* Distribution: Toho

## Cast

* Hitoshi Ueki as Phantom Thief Zivaco
* Kei Tani as Jiro Suzuki
* Hajime Hana as Shogoro Akechi
* Hiroshi Inuzuka as Choemon Nakatsuka
* Senri Sakurai as Old woman
* Ētarō Ishibashi as Oike's secretary
* Shin Yasuda as Police officer at Hikone checkpoint
* Mie Hama as Nana Himeno
* Yoshiko Toyoura as Yoko Meida
* Eitarō Shindō as President Oike
* Eijirō Tōno as Police Chief
* Andrew Hughes as Alka Honne
* Naoya Kusakawa as Chin Tact
* Roberto Barbon as Lero Lero Haven
* Hans Horneff as Una Guimesh
* Nadao Kirino as Kellinger
* Akira Hitomi as Policeman at Lake Biwa
* Yukio Aoshima as Police officer at Hakone checkpoint
* Kan Yanagiya as Director Koji Minami
* Shoichi Hirose as Taxi driver
* Haruya Katô as Cop on motorcycle
* Makoto Fujita as Minister in charge
* Takako Ando as Geisha
* Bokuzen Hidari as Right-wing tycoon leader / Sword maker
* Danshi Tatekawa as Factory worker
* Out Cast as Performer at the Go-Go Club
* Michi Aoyama as Girl at the Go-Go Club
* Nana Kinomi as Singer at Go Go Club
* Masao Komatsu as Moderator at Go-Go Club
* Mari Sono as College girl
* Linda Yamamoto as Teenage girl
* Yasuzô Ogawa as Police officer A
* Kazuo Suzuki as Police officer B
* Someshô Matsumoto as Chief Investigator in Kyoto
* Yutaka Sada as East-West Tourism Human Resources Manager
* Ryutaro Amami as Police official
* Hideo Shibuya, Minoru Ito as Zivaco Special Investigation Team detectives
* Kôji Uruki as Police officer at Hikone checkpoint (Non-credit)
* Ken Echigo as Jeep driver
* Jumpei Natsuki as W.C.W.C. welcome members (Non-credit)
* Masaki Shinohara as W.C.W.C. henchman, police officer the Hikone checkpoint [2 roles]
* Koji Uno as Journalist
* Yoshio Katsube as Man at airport
* Osman Yusuf, Enver Altenbay, Derek Nimmo, Terence Cooper, Toru Ibuki, Shoji Oki, Hisaya Ito, Shunji Kasuga as W.C.W.C. henchmen (Honne's subordinates)
* Akira Nagoya as Narrator

## Insert song

**Zivaco's Song** (ジバコの唄, *Jibako no uta*)

* Lyrics: Yasuo Tanami
* Composer: Hiroshi Miyagawa
* Performer: Kei Tani

**If You Can Afford It** (余裕がありゃこそ, *Yoyū ga arya koso*)

* Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima
* Composer & Performer: Hitoshi Ueki

**Fugue of Love** (恋のフーガ, *Koi no Fuga*) (English version)

* Lyrics: Rei Nakanishi
* Composer: Koichi Sugiyama
* Performer: Nana Kinomi

**One Day Love** (一日だけの恋, *Tsuitachi dake no koi*) (Instrumental version)

* Composer: Jun Mizutani
* Performer: Out Cast