Kureji da yo: kisôtengai

**Kureji da yo: kisôtengai** (クレージーだよ奇想天外, *The Man from Planet Alpha*) is a 1966 Japanese musical sci-fi comedy film directed by Takashi Tsuboshima and starring Kei Tani as the lead character. The sixth film of the "Strategy Series". The simultaneous screening is "It Started in the Alps". This double the money at the new box office record for Toho at the time, with box office revenue of ¥880 million and distribution revenue of ¥440 million (viewership at the cinema was about 4 million people watching the film).

This film is a combination of screenwriter Yasuo Tanami and director Takashi Tsuboshima, who were fans of American comedy movies in addition to starring Kei Tani. The result is a work that is quite different in color to the work starring as cinemascope version and a series featuring Hitoshi Ueki. The inspiration for the film was from the 1941 American fantasy romantic comedy film called Here Comes Mr. Jordan, directed by Alexander Hall. Based on "The Guys from Paradise," one of the plots that director Tsuboshima has heated up since he severed an assistant director back in the 1950s.

All the other Crazy Cats members also seem to served as supporting cast, with Ueki playing two roles; Planet α Secretary, M7's mentor, and Masaki, a crooked lawyer who gets lost in the Diet and calls himself as the Prime Minister of Japan in front of the cabinet members. A science fiction comedy adapted by Yasuo Tanami from "Jajama Nashi" and Takashi Tsuboshima from "Tanuki no ōsama." Some of the scenes were taken by cinematographer
Shinsaku Uno in "Hyappatsu hyakuchu".

## Plot

A man who sells cotton candy every day at the corner of an amusement park, this person was actually an M7 Alien A. The reason M7 is in Japan is that his mentor Alpha-sei chôkan has been severely worried by the effects of the Earth's atomic bomb experiment, so he sent M7 and Zero 8, a watcher, to Earth for a nuclear disarmament. That is why M7 came to Japan under his human name Tarô Suzuki. Since Taro was a new employee of Daisei Kagaku, M7 who got on his body decided to take the lead life as a human. By the way, there are no women in α star or in outer space. The alien race were born from machines and particles. M7 don't know a woman, but he gets angry at the sexual attractiveness by female worker Kazuo Shiroyama and the real Tarô Suzuki, the secretary to the President of Daisho Concern.

By the way, M7 and Zero 8 were given supernatural powers by Alpha-sei. M7 uses it to throw out all-you-can-eat pachinko balls, throw away nasty senior employees, and so on. One day, M7 turned a the artillery shells made by Daisei Kagaku into fireworks. The shells was for the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the Vietnam War used by the US Army, so it became a big issue for both the public and government officials from all different countries.

This incident came when US soldiers who are fighting in the jungles against the Viet Cong guerillas, they saw their Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers drop not the bombs, but fireworks, which one of the soldiers replied, "Just like the carnivals back home." M7 got fired from his company by the president after suspecting him putting fireworks on military properties. Furthermore, his supernatural power was suspended by Zero 8 for mischievous behavior on other humans. On the other hand, Isomura, the President of Daisei Kagaku, ran for a representative with the support of the chairman, but collapsed during the election campaign with the other rival political parties vying for industrial rights.

M7, who was useful there, was brilliantly elected by the chairman and became the first member of parliament. However, he also made a speech against the president's peace agreement, saying it would allow the atomic bomb test to resume. The angry chairman pointed M7 as a communist and wanted to continued with the nuclear disarmament agreement. M7, whose supernatural powers have been suspended, is weakening. After being chased by two enemy thugs, he escaped from Taro Suzuki's body and escaped back to his planet to talk with Alpha. Then, when M7 was awake, he returned to Earth. He began like Kazuko Shiroyama very much. However, Kazuko was married to the real Taro Suzuki, a salesman. Frustrated, M7 remembered the taste of cotton candy he ate someday and opened a cotton candy store. The movie ends with M7 sing a song to a little girl while making a cotton candy, happy to be as a human and considered Earth his home.

## Staff

* Director: Takashi Tsuboshima
* Producer: Shin Watanabe
* Executive Producer: Tadahito Gomyō (as Tadato Gomei)
* Screenwriter: Yasuo Tanami
* Music Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara, Kenjiro Hirose
* Cinematographer: Shinsaku Uno
* Editor: Ume Takeda
* Production Designer: Shigekazu Ikuno
* Art Director: Shinobu Muraki
* Makeup Artist: Tomoko Tawakami
* Executive in charge of production: Norihiko Yamada
* Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Masao Asano (second assistant director), Koji Hashimoto (second assistant director), Masashi Matsumoto (first assistant director), Fumisuke Okada (third assistant director) (as Fumisake Okada)
* Art Department: Katsumi Nakayama (property master), Akio Nojima (property master)
* Sound Department: Toshiya Ban (sound recordist), Kazuo Miyauchi (assistant sound mixer), Hisashi Shimonaga (sound effects editor)
* Special Effects: Mitsuo Miyagawa, Toyoo Tanaka (special mechanical effects)
* Camera and Electrical Department: Takashi Iwai (still photographer), Kenichiro Kojima (assistant director of photography), Shoshichi Kojima (lighting technician / lighting), Kaoru Washio (assistant director of photography)
* Editorial Department: Hiroshi Matsuda (vision mixer)
* Script and Continuity Department: Teruyo Nogami (script supervisor)

## Cast

* Kei Tani as M7 (Mistake 7) / Tarô Suzuki
* Hitoshi Ueki as Alpha-sei chôkan (Planet α Secretary) / Masaki
* Hajime Hana as Heikichi Isomura
* Senri Sakurai as Tarô Suzuki
* Shin Yasuda as Surgeon
* Hiroshi Inuzuka as MC of a Concert (Show host)
* Êitarô Ishibashi as Yukari's Fiance
* Yuriko Hoshi as Kazuko Shiroyama
* Tsuguaki Yoshida as Akira Shiroyama
* Makoto Fujita as Zero 8, Mistake 7's mentor (Reihachi)
* Yumiko Nogawa as Yukari Sasaki
* Yuya Uchida as Kentarô (Jimmy Ken)
* Eitarô Shindô as Oguchi
* Yû Fujiki as Drill Instructor Takebayashi
* Masanari Nihei as Yokota
* Noriko Takahashi as Kohana - Geisha Girl
* Kazuo Suzuki as Self-Defense Forces Company Commander
* Kyû Sazanka as Kuronuma
* Junichiro Mukai as Owner of Pachinko Parlor
* Kan Yanagiya as Chairman of the parliament
* Sôji Ubukata as Old Assemblyman Tokusugi
* Toki Shiozawa as Setsuko Isomura
* Shigeki Ishida as Dr. Tsukada
* Naoya Kusakawa, Nadao Kirino as Sinister-looking thugs
* Senkichi Ômura as Owner of Used Car Lot
* Kôji Iwamoto, Kenzo Koshiji, Hiroshi Sekita, Ken Echigo as Diet security guards
* Haruo Suzuki as Traffic Cop at the parliamentary building
* Minoru Ito as Daisei Company Executive
* Hideo Shibuya, Takuya Yuki as TV directors
* Rinsaku Ogata as Oguchi's Secretary
* Wataru Ōmae as Stripclubber (Striptease Audience)
* Toyohiko Sata as Police officer at the mansion
* Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans as Show band group

※Credit order

※Non-credit performers

* Haruo Nakajima as Guest in pachinko parlors
* Akira Kitchoji, Takuzô Kumagai as Daisei Company Executive as Daisei Company Executives
* Toriko Takahara as Neighbor
* Ryôji Shimizu as Train Station Worker
* Keiichirô Katsumoto as Government Committee Man
* Kazuo Hikata as Assemblyman Tanaka
* Yutaka Oka as Another Secretary to Oguchi
* Masayoshi Kawabe, Yoshikazu Kawamata as Security guards
* Junko Shima as Stripper
* Saburô Kadowaki as Salaryman
* Sachiko Môri as Geisha
* Yoshie Norihira as Waitress
* Masanori Shinohara as Secretary of Isomura
* Katsumi Tezuka as Assemblyman Yoshida (Ruling party member)
* Shirô Tsuchiya as A Daisei Company Director
* Mitsuo Tsuda as Government member
* Osman Yusuf, Gene Evans, Skip Homeier as US soldiers in Vietnam
* Jumpei Natsuki as Station man, striptease guest, councilor (3 roles)
* Fumi Hirano as Little girl talking to M7

## Insert songs

**The Man Who Came Across The Rainbow** (虹を渡って来た男, *Niji o watatte kita otoko*)

* Lyrics: Yasuo Tanami
* Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara
* Performer: Kei Tani

**My Heart Is 33,333,330 ℃** (俺のハートは3333万3330℃, *Ore no hāto wa 3333 man 3330 ℃*)

* Lyrics & Composer: Kenjiro Hirose
* Performer: Yuya Uchida

**I Said I Didn't Like It** (イヤダイヤダと云ったのに, *Iyadaiyada to yuttanoni*)

* Lyrics: Yasuo Tanami
* Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara
* Performer: Kei Tani

**Complaints** (文句節, *Monku-bushi*)

* Lyrics: Yasuo Tanami
* Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara
* Performer: Hitoshi Ueki