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Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Zettai zetsumei

***Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Zettai zetsumei*** (国際秘密警察 絶体絶命, *International Secret Police: Driven to the Wall*), also known as ***The Killing Bottle***, is a 1967 Japanese spy-comedy film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi. It was the fifth and final installment of five films in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, a parody of James Bond-style spy movies. The film was based on a 1959 novel, *Desperate Situation*, by Michio Tsuzuki.

## Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Zettai zetsumei

### Produced by

Nick Adams (uncredited)
Tomoyuki Tanaka

### Written by

Shinichi Sekizawa
Michio Tsuzuki (story)

### Starring

Tatsuya Mihashi
Nick Adams
Makoto Satô
Kumi Mizuno
Akihiko Hirata
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Annu Mari
Tetsu Nakamura
Jun Tazaki

## Plot

Shimada, an undercover ISP agent who was investigating the assassination plan of the Buddhabar Prime Minister, was killed in Hong Kong. Kitami and John Carter, who were dispatched from the Far East Bureau headquarters, have started an investigation to protect the prime minister while visiting Japan.

Then, two professional assassins, Ken Hayata and Akiko from the international assassination group Triple Z (ZZZ) who undertook the assassination of prime minister's aide who also came to Japan from Hong Kong and attacked the prime minister, while Kitami, John and a female must prevented them from attempting to kill him.

## Cast

* Tatsuya Mihashi as Jiro Kitami
* Nick Adams as John Carter (Voiced by: Masaaki Yajima)
* Kumi Mizuno as A Girl
* Annu Mari as Ayako
* Makoto Satō as Ken Hayata
* Jun Tazaki as Prime Minister Buddhabar
* Akihiko Hirata as Man With Turkish Hat
* Yoshio Tsuchiya as General Rubesa
* Tetsu Nakamura as Head of ZZZ Hong Kong Branch Office
* Ryuji Kita as Head of the Far East Bureau (ISP Headquarters in Japan)
* Hideyo Amamoto as Hitman A
* Masashi Oshita as Hitman B
* Kazuo Kawakami as Hitman C
* Sachio Sakai as ISP agent Shimada
* Yasushi Yokoyama as Gangster A
* Kiyoshi Nishikawa as Gangster B
* Mari Takeno as Maiko
* Raita Ryū as Man with Rifle

## Staff

* Based on a 1959 novel *Desperate Situation*
* Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
* Executive Producer: Nick Adams (uncredited)
* Original Story: Michio Tsuzuki (credited as screenwriter)
* Screenplay: Shinichi Sekizawa, Peter Fernandez (English version and voice director)
* Director: Senkichi Taniguchi
* Cinematographer: Takao Saitô
* Music Composer: Sadao Bekku
* Production Designer: Hiroshi Ueda
* Lighting Technician: Kazuo Shimomura
* Editor: Yoshitami Kuroiwa
* Sound Recordist: Yoshio Nishikawa
* Photographer: Kyosuke Ikegami
Ken Uehara

**Ken Uehara** (上原謙, *Uehara Ken*, November 7, 1909 - November 23, 1991) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1935 and 1990. He starred in Entotsu no mieru basho, which was entered in the 3rd Berlin International Film Festival. His son is the singer and actor Yūzō Kayama. His birth name is Kiyoaki Ikehata (池端 清亮)

## Life and Career

Uehara was born to wealthy, well-connected parents. He graduated from Rikkyo University, where he was first recognized for his musical talents and handsome appearance. Uehara joined Shochiku in 1935, debuting in films for Hiroshi Shimizu; it only took two films for him to become a lead actor.

In 1937, Uehara was part of the “Shochiku Trio,” with actors Shin Saburi and Shuji Sano. They appeared in several light-hearted “road” movies, which while successful were among Uehara’s least favorite roles. After the war he parted ways with Shochiku and sought to become a free agent. He worked with famed directors Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, and Mikio Naruse, performing in films for powerhouse studio Toho during the 50s. He became increasingly difficult for studios to market as a male lead, primarily because he was no longer a bachelor, and so Uehara accepted a contract from Toho in 1959. While under contract Uehara appeared in a handful of sci-fi films, as older, father-type characters.

Before the war, Uehara had a reputation for being a playboy, even during his first marriage to actress Yoko Kozakura; his extra-marital affairs threw her into a depression. After Kozakura’s death in 1970, Uehara married his mistress Masami Obayashi, who was 38 years his junior. Obayashi and Uehara divorced in June 1991; that November, Uehara was found dead in his home, officially from heart failure. Ken Uehara is the father of actor Yuzo Kayama of Young Guy (or Wakadaisho) fame.
Kiyoshi Komori

**Kiyoshi Komori** (小森白, *Komori Kiyoshi*, January 27, 1920 - August 3, 2003), also known as **Midori Otaki** (大滝 翠, *Otaki Midori*) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter & movie producer. During his 20 years as a film director, he directed over 60 films. He is also the founder and president of Tokyo Koei, Co., Ltd..

## Career

Komori grew up in Taikodo, Setagaya-ku (Tokyo, Japan) on January 27, 1920. He moved to Beijing, China as a child, graduated from the former Beijing Japan High School in 1933. In 1944, Komori return to Tokyo during World War II and worked as a garrison volunteer. in March 1945, he graduated from the Hosei University College of Economics and in April, he joined Toho at the age of 24. In 1946, Komori participated in the establishment of Shintoho (then Shintoho Film Factory), and served as an assistant director to Kenji Mizoguchi, Yutaka Abe, Shigeo Tanaka, Nobuo Nakagawa and others. In 1953, he was promoted to director at the age of 33 and made his first feature comedy film called "Ittô nyôbo to santô teishu" starring Yūnosuke Itō.

In 1958, he was attached to another company, Fuji Eiga Co., Ltd., headed by Mitsugi Ōkura, and after directing "Taiyô musume to shachô-zoku" starring Naoko Kubo, Komori returned to Shintoho in 1959. He directed 27 films, including Fuji films until it went into bankruptcy in 1961. In 1962, he directed "Taiheiyô Sensô to Himeyuri Butai" in the film's successor Fuji, the Okura Movie Co.,Ltd. In 1963, inspired by Gualtiero Jacopetti's "Mondo Cane", Komori directed "This Is Japan" composed of archival footage with Nobuo Nakagawa (along with other staffs), and distributed by Shintoho Eiga (also known as Shintoho Pictures Company).

In 1964, he founded Komori Productions (later renamed Tokyo Koei, Co., Ltd) at the age of 44 and directed his first pink film "Nihon gōmon keibatsu-shi". He then established his company located in the street of Ginza (Chūō, Tokyo) on March 8, 1966 ad became the representative director, directing 24 pink films in the company in 8 years. In 1973, Komori directed "Nihon ryôki jiken" with Shin'ya Yamamoto and Yoshiaki Horikoshi, which was released in January of the same year. Eventually, the company ceased operations and Komori retired at the age of 53.

In his later years, Komori became a condo and apartment owner. He passed away in 2003 from a heart disease at the age of 83.
Jack Altenbay

**Jack Altenbay** (ジャック・アルテンバイ, *Jakku arutenbai*, June 15, 1905 - December 15, 1985) is a Turkish actor and writer who appeared in both Japanese and Western films. He is the uncle of another Turkish-born Japanese actor Enver Altenbay.

## Career

Born in the Kochi Prefecture to a immigrant Turkish middle class family, Jack enrolled at the Kōchi University and graduated in 1926. During his early adulthood, Jack would studied Japan's culture and wrote his journal. In 1932, he moved to Tokyo to pursued his writing career and joined the Yomiuri Shimbun. Even though he was a foreigner, Jack was treated well by his fellow editors. During his time, Jack had learned to speak Japanese while reading the newspaper and spoke English as he visit the local library. In 1938, Jack meet Etsuko Nakao (1909-1997), a dressmaker at the near by store and the two married in 1940. They had two children, Shuji (later became profession photographer) in 1942 and Chinatsu (later became an artist) in 1944.

In 1949, he meet two filmmakers, Nobuo Aoyagi & Sōjirō Motoki, where they recruited him to play Western parts in Japanese films. In 1951, Jack signed the contract and became an actor. His first appearance was in 1956 film Kaiketsu shura-ō (directed by Santaro Marune) as Rochefort. Then, he played Mr. Chatterley in Morihei Magatani's Nichibei hanayome hanamuko torikae gassen, Admiral of the Baltic Fleet Zinovy Rozhestvensky in Kunio Watanabe's Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War, and Atom AB leader & Black Satellite Marshall in four Super Giant films. Jack is known was his characteristic appearance and western counterpart. He even meet George A. Furness, Andrew Hughes, Harold Conway and Osman Yusef as being part of an international acting group.

He retired from acting in 1968 and return to his family. In 1971, they moved to Istanbul to persuade their life. Jack passed away in 1985 from myocardial infarction at the age of 80.

## Filmography:

* Kaiketsu shura-ō (1956) as Rochefort
* Nichibei hanayome hanamuko torikae gassen (1957) as Mr. Chatterley
* Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957) as Zinovy Rozhestvensky
* Super Giant: The Steel Giant (1957) as Atom AB leader
* Super Giant Continues (1957) as Atom AB leader
* Yōjasō no maō (1957) as Dr. Stanley
* Sen'un Ajia no Joō (1957) as Barsky
* Super Giant - The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity (1957) as Marshal of the secret nation "Black Satellite"
* Super Giant - The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite (1958) as Marshal of the secret nation "Black Satellite"
* Soren dasshutsu: Joguni to nisekyōjin (1958) as Soviet direct officer
Teruyoshi Nakano

**Teruyoshi Nakano** (中野昭慶 *Nakano Teruyoshi*, October 9, 1935 – June 27, 2022) is a Japanese special effects director who has worked on several Toho-produced tokusatsu films, including many entries in the Godzilla series. Special Effects Director for Toho films throughout the 70s and 80s, and the third individual to bear the title “Director of Special Effects” at Toho (after Eiji Tsuburaya and Sadamasa Arikawa).

## Career

Nakano was born to a wealthy family in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. When the Japanese lost WWII, he was repatriated to Japan. He graduated from Nihon University in 1959 and joined Toho, where he became an assistant director under Eiji Tsuburaya. His first “Director of Special Effects” credit was the *Crazy Cats* comedy *Crazy Explosion* in 1969. When Sadamasa Arikawa retired from Toho after the death of Tsuburaya, Nakano became head of special effects for all of Toho’s efforts.

Nakano’s tenure in the 70s was unfortunately influenced by a slumping Japanese economy and nosediving film industry. Toho’s special effects films were produced at a fraction of the cost and even less time; *Godzilla vs. Megalon* was reportedly filmed during a very intense 2 week period! Since Nakano couldn’t afford to plan and film entirely new monster fight sequences for each film, he was forced to insert stock footage from previous films to help fill out each film’s monster sequences.

Nakano redeemed himself with his superior work on disaster films like *Submersion of Japan* (1973) and *The Return of Godzilla* (1984). After presiding over the special effects for Kon Ichikawa’s *Princess from the Moon* (1987), Nakano retired from film to design theme park attractions. Nakano is remembered for frequent use of vibrant and [very] large explosions during his set pieces, especially in *Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster* (1974) and *Terror of Mechagodzilla* (1975). In 1985, he directed the special effects for the North Korean-produced monster film *Pulgasari*. He died of sepsis on June 27, 2022 at the age of 86.
Yasujirō Ozu

**Yasujirō Ozu** (小津 安二郎, *Ozu Yasujirō*, 12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films, and his last films were made in colour in the early 1960s. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the 1930s.

The most prominent themes of Ozu's work are marriage and family, especially the relationships between generations. His most widely acclaimed films include Late Spring (1949), Tokyo Story (1953), Floating Weeds (1959), and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).

His reputation has continued to grow since his death, and he is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential directors. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, Ozu's Tokyo Story was voted the third-greatest film of all time by critics worldwide. In the same poll, Tokyo Story was voted the greatest film of all time by 358 directors and filmmakers worldwide.

## Career:

Tokyo-born Yasujiro Ozu was a movie buff from childhood, often playing hooky from school in order to see Hollywood movies in his local theatre. In 1923 he landed a job as a camera assistant at Shochiku Studios in Tokyo. Three years later, he was made an assistant director and directed his first film the next year, Blade of Penitence (1927). Ozu made thirty-five silent films, and a trilogy of youth comedies with serious overtones he turned out in the late 1920s and early 1930s placed him in the front ranks of Japanese directors. He made his first sound film in 1936, The Only Son (1936), but was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army the next year, being posted to China for two years and then to Singapore when World War II started. Shortly before the war ended he was captured by British forces and spent six months in a P.O.W. facility. At war's end he went back to Shochiku, and his experiences during the war resulted in his making more serious, thoughtful films at a much slower pace than he had previously. His most famous film, Tokyo Story (1953), is generally considered by critics and film buffs alike to be his "masterpiece" and is regarded by many as not only one of Ozu's best films but one of the best films ever made. He also turned out such classics of Japanese film as The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952), Floating Weeds (1959) and An Autumn Afternoon (1962).

Ozu, who never married and lived with his mother all his life, died of cancer in 1963, two years after she passed.
Tatsurō Matsuoka

**Tatsurō Matsuoka** (松岡辰郎, *Matsuoka Tatsurō*, November 18, 1904; Yamanashi, Japan - August 12, 1974; Mukogawacho, Nishinomiya {age 69} ) is a Japanese businessman from the Yamanashi Prefecture and the 6th president of Toho Studio from 1962 to 1966. He is also served as President and CEO of Koma Stadium, President of Matsuoka Kisen, Chairman of the Film Association Industry, Chairman of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Chairman of the Japan Theater Association, Standing Director of Japan Business Federation, and standing member of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

## Career

He is the secomd son of first president of Toho Studio, Ichizō Kobayashi. After graduating from Keio University in 1930, he married female painter Setsuko Matsuoka (1912-1984) and adopted by the Matsuoka Family, and his father-in-law Junkichi Matsuoka was the founder of Matsuoka Kisen and the CEO of Kureha Cotton Spinning.

Tatsurō has served as a director of Hankyu Department Store, including as an pepresentative director of Matsuoka Kisen. In 1951, his father-in-law and businessman, Junkichi, passed away and became President of Matsuoka Kisen. On March 25, 1957, he became a director of Toho, but his father, Ichizo, and his older brother, Tomisao Kobayashi, died from illness and became the general manager of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Tatsurō mainly active in the entertainment section and also served as President of the Imperial Theater. In March 1957, Tatsurō became President of Umeda Koma Stadium. After serving as president of Shinjuku Koma Stadium in March 1958, he merged both stadiums in August 1964 and became the first president of the Koma Stadium.

Tatsurō was appointed as Chairman of Toho on September 25, 1962, and president of the film studio on September 24, 1966. He even established the Toho Entertainment Academy on April 1, 1968 and became the chairman. On September 16, 1971, Tatsurō became Chairman of the Film Association Industry Union. He died at Hyogo College of Medicine Hospital in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture at 2:48 pm on August 12, 1974 from pneumonia at the age of 69.
Kenji Mizoguchi

**Kenji Mizoguchi** (溝口 健二, *Mizoguchi Kenji*, May 16, 1898 – August 24, 1956) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Mizoguchi's work is renowned for its long takes and mise-en-scène. According to writer Mark Le Fanu, "His films have an extraordinary force and purity. They shake and move the viewer by the power, refinement and compassion with which they confront human suffering."

His film *Ugetsu* (1953) brought him international attention and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Other acclaimed films of his include The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939), The Life of Oharu (1952), Sansho the Bailiff (1954), and The Crucified Lovers (1954). Today, Mizoguchi is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in cinema history.

## Career:

Coming from a lower class family, Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known outside of Japan because they were especially produced for Venice (e.g. The Life of Oharu (1952) or 0047445. He only filmed two productions in color: Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) and Taira Clan Saga (1955).
Yōko Yaguchi

**Yōko Yaguchi** (矢口 陽子, *Yaguchi Yōko*, 27 August 1921 - 1 February 1985) is a Japanese actress and the wife of film director Akria Kurosawa. She had two children with Kurosawa: a son named Hisao and a daughter named Kazuko. Upon her death in 1985, she was survived by her husband, two children and four grandchildren, three from son Hisao's marriage to Hiroko Hayashi and one from daughter Kazuko Karosawa.

## Biography

Born in Hong Kong in 1921. In the 1930s, Yaguchi dropped out of Showa High School (currently Showa High School attached to Showa Women's University). In 1937, she joined the Shochiku Shoujo Opera Company under her stage name, **Terumi Wakazono** (若園照美,*Wakazono Terumi*). Yaguchi would latter left the company and joined Toho in 1940. In 1944, he appeared in Akira Kurosawa's second film, "The Most Beautiful." In 1945, he married Kurosawa (the wedding was at Meiji Jingu, and the mediator was Kajiro Yamamoto) and retired as an actress. After retiring, she entered the family and demonstrated her internal assistance so that Kurosawa could make a movie comfortably. Kurosawa came to his wife from an actress, but he thought that if he couldn't cook, the director's wife wouldn't work, so he studied cooking, prepared for a banquet, and made lunch boxes for the staff as well as Kurosawa.

Nicknamed "Godmother" by the people around her that according to daughter Kazuko, Kurosawa was the only person who couldn't get his head up. There are various theories about how she married Kurosawa, but according to Yaguchi, Kurosawa was more active and received many letters and was persuaded.

After getting married, when Kurosawa bought clothes for Yaguchi as a souvenir from a foreign country that it was too big for a her, saying that, "I've lived with him for decades, but my size too. Don't know," he lamented, but it was an event that Kurosawa had only a movie in his mind at that time.

## Filmography

* Totsugu hi made (1940)
* Kingorô no Aa mujô (1940)
* Shûtome musume no gaikâ (1940)
* Renga jokô (1940)
* Jogakusei-ki (1941)
* Waga ai no ki (1941)
* Otoko no hanamichi (1941)
* The Sky of Hope (1942)
* Seishun no kiryû (1942)
* Mother Never Dies (1942)
* Wakaki hi no yorokobi (1943)
* The Most Beautiful (1944)
* The Brick Factory Girl (1946)
Scary Strike

**Enchantment Type :** Weapon

**Gold Costs :** 2500gp

**Material Costs :** 8 Leather Points, 25 Essence

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Yosuke Natsuki

**Yosuke Natsuki** (夏木陽介, *Natsuki Yōsuke*, February 27, 1936 – January 14, 2018) was a Japanese actor. He had participated twice in the Dakar Rally as a racing driver. He did a lot of work for the Toho Company and made his debut in the film The H-Man. He appeared in Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo in 1961. In the 1970s, he left Toho and joined Toshiro Mifune's production company. He was famous for his role in the police TV drama *G-Men '75* as well as Toho Studios monster movies.

## Career

Handsome actor and known automobile enthusiast. Natsuki joined Toho in 1958, and made his first on-screen appearance as one of the witnesses in the first scene of The H-Man that same year. He garnered leading roles across a variety of films, including sci-fi, war movies, period dramas, salaryman comedies, and teen films. In 1965 he appeared in the first of a series of high school dramas on TV. When Toho’s contract system dissolved in the early 70s, Natsuki migrated to Mifune Productions. In 1984, Natsuki was chosen to replace an ailing Akihiko Hirata as the scientist in The Return of Godzilla. He returned to the genre again many years later in a cameo in Monster X Strikes Back (2008). Natsuki is best known to genre fans for playing detectives in both Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster and Dogora, the Space Monster (both 1964). He also played the wayward farmer’s son in Yojimbo (1961), who aligns with one of the town’s gangs… and who Toshiro Mifune frightens back home at the end of the film. Natsuki passed away in 2018 from skin cancer.
Andrew Hughes

**Andrew Hughes** (アンドリュー・ヒューズ, *Andoryû Hyûzu*, January 16, 1908 – September 1, 1996) was a Turkish-born actor and business executive best known for acting in several Japanese films. His most notable role was that of Adolf Hitler in the 1965 Japanese comedy *Crazy Adventure*.

Hughes has also appeared in films such as *King Kong Escapes* (1967), *Destroy All Monsters* (1968), *Tidal Wave* (1973), *ESPY* (1974), and *Sayonara Jupiter* (1984). He also starred in the Hollywood films *The Last Voyage* (1960) and *Flight from Ashiya* (1964) (both partially filmed and set in Japan). Working almost exclusively in the Japanese film industry, he is one of several foreign actors to appear frequently in Toho's Showa-era tokusatsu films, along with Osman Yusuf and Harold Conway.

## Career

Being virtually exclusively active in the Japanese film industry, Hughes was often cast in the roles of various Westerners, often portraying an international reporter, politician or foreign military officer. Not much is known about Hughes's early, pre-acting years, but it is known that he was born in Ottoman Turkey where he originally worked as a career businessman with some small-time acting experience as an extra.

Actor Robert Dunham asserted that most fellow Western actors in Japan were in fact of Turkish origin as many Turks had fled to Japan after the Turkish revolution by ways of China in order to avoid being drafted to the army. Hughes was ultimately based in Tokyo as an import-export businessman and eventually started making numerous appearances in Japanese films in a career that spanned from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. As most Westerners appearing in Japanese films at the time spoke little or no Japanese, Hughes was dubbed by Japanese-speaking actors in most of his films.
Heihachiro Okawa

**Heihachiro Okawa** (大川 平八郎, Ōkawa Heihachirō, September 9, 1905; Saitama, Japan – May 27, 1971; Seijo, Saitama {age 65} ), also sometimes credited as **Henry Okawa** (ヘンリー大川), was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa.

He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

## Career

Okawa traveled to the United States in 1923 after graduating high school to study business. He studied at the University of Florida in Gainesville and afterwards lived in Atlanta and New York City. Out of curiosity he attempted to make tuition for Paramount’s newly opened actor school, but unfortunately the school was closed in only one year, so Okawa finished his studies at Columbia University studying economics.

In 1928, he moved to Hollywood to indulge his curiosity again, this time joining Fox and learning aerial acrobatics for Howard Hawks’ films, appearing in The Air Circus that year. He flew again for Hawks in The Dawn Patrol (1930). In 1933, Okawa returned to Japan to tend to his dying father. He joined PCL, which eventually became Toho Studios. Okawa appeared in propaganda films during the war, including one filmed in the Philippines. At the end of the war, Okawa served as interpreter for surrendering commander Tomoyuki Yamashita. (Yamashita was later found guilty of war crimes in the occupied Philippines and executed.)

In the post-war year, Okawa played numerous supporting characters for Toho films, including science fiction. He has prominent roles as an interpreter in The Mysterians (1957), an outspoken member of the UFO club in Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964), and as the yellow-jacketed scientist who deciphers the aliens’ remote control technology in Destroy All Monsters (1968). After 1957 he adopted the stage name “Henry Okawa.” In the late 60s, Okawa, along with fellow Turkish-born actor Osman Yusef, worked as interpreters for foreign actors working in Japanese film.
Yoshiyuki Kozu

**Yoshiyuki Kozu** (神津善行, *Kozu Yoshiyuki*, January 2, 1932; Tokyo, Japan {age 89} - ) is a prolific Japanese music composer. He served at the Research Fellow, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University. Director of Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and Director of Japan Minyo Association.

## Career

Kozu was born in Tokyo in 1932. He graduated from Kunitachi College of Music, Instrumental Music Course. He studied musics under Kiyoshi Nobutoki and trumpet under Fujio Nakayama. Kuzo compossed about 300 songs, mainly movie soundtracks, and also composes popular songs and brass bands.

He also writes essays and books. In 1992, for the reconstruction of folk music, Kozu formed a group of 11 women, "Rokukasen," using traditional Japanese and Chinese musical instruments such as biwa. He is conducting research on plants and music at Waseda University, and is also active in composing the small symphonic poem "Yorishiro" with the faint signal sounds of plants.

## Personal life

He is married to film actress Meiko Nakamura in 1957, his eldest daughter is novelist Kanna Kôzu. His second daughter is actress Hazuki Kôzu, his eldest son is painter Yoshinosuke Kozu, and the son-in-law (Hazuki's husband) is actor Tetsuta Sugimoto.
Enoken's Ten Millions

***Enoken's Ten Millions*** (エノケンの千万長者, *Zoku Enoken no senman chôja*) is a 1936 Japanese comedy musical film directed by Kajirô Yamamoto and produced by Photo Chemical Laboratory (P.C.L.). It was the second movie made by Toho; the film would also later make a sequel.

## Overview:

The movie featured many inspiration from Hollywood films such as jazz, The Renaissance, theatrical realism and vaudeville. Even though it was three years before the World War II, it had became the first film to be put into a musical stage.

## Staffs:

* Director: Kajirô Yamamoto
* Screenplay & Story: P.C.L. Literary Division
* Composer: Shigekazu Kurihara
* Cinematography: Hiromitsu Karasawa
* Production Designer: Takeo Kita
* Assistant Director: Akira Kurosawa
* Sound Recordist: Jun Yamaguchi

## Casts:

* Ken'ichi Enomoto
* Sadaichi Nimura
* Mitsuko Hirokawa
* Sadaichi Yanagida
Rodan

**Rodan** (ラドン, *Radon*) is a fictional kaiju, which first appeared as the title character in Ishirō Honda's 1956 film Rodan, produced and distributed by Toho. Following its debut standalone appearance, Rodan went on to be featured in numerous entries in the Godzilla franchise, including Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Invasion of Astro-Monster, Destroy All Monsters, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II and Godzilla: Final Wars, as well as in the Legendary Pictures-produced film Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Rodan is depicted as a colossal, prehistoric, irradiated species of Pteranodon. In 2014, IGN ranked Rodan as #6 on their "Top 10 Japanese Movie Monsters" list, while Complex listed the character as #15 on its "The 15 Most Badass Kaiju Monsters of All Time" list.

## Appeared in films

* Rodan (1956)

* Valley of the Dragons (1961, stock footage cameo)

* Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

* Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

* Destroy All Monsters (1968)

* Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972, stock footage cameo)

* Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973, stock footage cameo)

* Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975, stock footage cameo)

* Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)

* Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

* Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017, skeleton corpse)

* Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

## Television

* Godzilla Island (1997–1998)

* Godzilla Singular Point (2021)
Hiroshi Inagaki

**Hiroshi Inagaki** (稲垣 浩, *Inagaki Hiroshi*, December 30, 1905 – May 21, 1980) was a Japanese filmmaker best remembered for the Academy Award-winning Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, which was released in 1954.

## Hiroshi Inagaki

### Allias

Akihiro Azuma (東 明浩)
Kinpachi Kahijara (梶原 金八)

### Occupation

Director
Actor
Writer
Producer

### Awards

Academy Honorary Award
Golden Lion

### Best known

1956 Miyamoto Musashi
1958 Rickshaw Man

Born in Tokyo as the son of a shinpa actor, Inagaki appeared on stage in his childhood before joining the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1922. Wishing to become a director, he joined Chiezō Kataoka's studio, Chiezō Productions and made his directorial debut with Tenka taiheiki (1928). Returning to Nikkatsu, he continued making jidaigeki and participated in the Naritaki Group of young filmmakers such as Sadao Yamanaka and Fuji Yahiro who collaboratively wrote screenplays under the made up name "Kinpachi Kajiwara". Like others in the group, Inagaki was known for his cheerful and intelligent samurai films. Inagaki later moved to Daiei and then Toho, where he made big budget color spectacles as well as delicate works depicting the feelings of children. He also produced many films and wrote the scripts for dozens of others.

## Career

Inagaki’s mother passed away when he was 8 years old, and from then on he began touring with his father’s acting company, where he learned to act and write for dramas. He joined Nikkatsu at age 17, and became a third assistant director at age 21.

Inagaki collaborated frequently with actor Chiezo Kataoka, and helmed several features for Kataoka’s production company in the 20s and 30s. In the 40s he directed a trilogy of films based on the life of Musashi Miyamoto, starring Kataoka. Inagaki would later film another trilogy of Miyamoto films starring Toshiro Mifune in the 50s, which would be more widely recognized around the world. The first film in that series, Musashi Miyamoto (1954), won an honorary Oscar for Best Foreign Language film.

Inagaki and Kurosawa were considered the top directors of historical dramas and epics at Toho. Inagaki helmed the massive production of The Birth of Japan (1959) to commemorate Toho’s 1000th feature film, as well as the successful 1962 samurai drama Chushingura, based on the legend of the 47 ronin.
David W. Conde

**David William Conde** (デヴィッド・コンデ, *Dēvu~iddo konde*, 1906-1981), also known as **D・W・W・Conde** (D・W・W・コンデ), is a Canadian-born American freelance journalist.

## Career

David Conde was born in Ontario. He moved to the United States in the early 1920s and became an American citizen in 1932. In 1945, Conde worked for the U.S. State Department during the occupation of Japan as the head of the Motion Picture Department of Civil Information and Education Section. In late 1946 to early 1947, he covered the Tokyo War Crimes Trials. He was ultimately expelled from Japan by General Douglas MacArthur. In 1964, he returned to Tokyo as a regular correspondent for various periodicals, including the Far Eastern Economic Review and Ta Kung Pao. Several of his full-length books on Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Asian-American political policies have been published in Japanese. Most of his articles have appeared in English-language publications.
Scoty

Scoty in seinem grünen Endermen-Outfit

**Anmerkungen:**

* **Scoty** ist der Urendermen Zankus. Mehr dazu auf seinem Artikel.
* **Scoty** wird in der Scoty VS Dönni Serie zwar **Scoty** genannt, er wird aber in dieser Serie komplett von Cemius kontrolliert und ist im Zankus Körper.

## Geschichte

**Scoty** ist am meisten präsent in der Force-Story, in dieser kämpft er gegen verschiedenste Gefahren. Dann in der sechsten Staffel, Force Future, sucht er sich die Items und Kräfte der Urendermen, wodurch er sich wieder in Zankus verwandeln kann. Später bietet Cemius ihm auch seine Kräfte an, dies ist natürlich nur ein Trick, aber Zankus war naiv genug um darauf reinzufallen. Deswegen konnte Sieben Cemius in **Scoty** erwecken. Cemius im Zankus Körper wird dann in der Scoty VS Dönni Serie **Scoty** genannt.

## Vorkommen

* Force
	+ Force
	+ Force 2
	+ Der Riss der Zeit
		- Der Riss der Zeit
		- Der Riss der Zeit 2
		- Der Riss der Zeit 3 Die Dunkelheit
	+ Force Future
Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kayaku no taru

***Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kayaku no taru*** (国際秘密警察 火薬の樽, *International Secret Police: Keg of Gunpowder*), also known as ***Keg of Gunpowder***, is a 1964 Japanese spy-comedy film directed by Takashi Tsuboshima. It was the third installment of five films in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, a parody of James Bond-style spy movies.

Woody Allen used this film, combined two with footage from the third installment *Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kayaku no taru* (国際秘密警察 火薬の樽, *International Secret Police: Keg of Gunpowder*) & *Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi* (国際秘密警察 鍵の鍵, *International Secret Police: Key of Keys*), to create his directorial debut, *What's Up, Tiger Lily?*, in which the original dialogue is redubbed in English to make the plot about a secret egg salad recipe.

## Plot

Professor Tatsuno, who studies remote control of nuclear bombs, has been kidnapped by an unknown group. Kitami, along with Inspector Yagyu of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, immediately set out to investigate and understood that this was the work of an international criminal-terrorist organization called the World Union Alliance (W.U.A.) led by Hayato Kuroki, a criminal mastermind and far right leader with Nazi ideology.

During the investigation, Kitami discovers the WUA secret hideout and infiltrated it until he was captured by WUA agents. Then, the WUA will get the design drawing of the Zeta Line, a remote control device which can detonate any nucleus on Earth, complete the device and plan the detonated on the Shinkansen bullet train as a starting experience.

## Cast

* Tatsuya Mihashi as Jiro Kitami
* Makoto Satō as Inspector Yagyu
* Yuriko Hoshi as Kayo Tatsuno
* Kumi Mizuno as WUA No. 6 (Rumi)
* Jun Tazaki as Professor Tatsuno
* Masanari Nihei as Seinen Miyaji
* Akiko Wakabayashi as Girl Taken at Haneda
* Someshô Matsumoto as Hayato Kuroki
* Shin Otomo as Zenjiro Asai
* Tadao Nakamaru as Sakurao Goda
* Harold Conway as Dr. Wagen
* Hershey Jones as WUA No. 4
* Tôru Ibuki as WUA No. 5
* Nadao Kirino as WUA No. 8
* Shôji Ôki as WUA No. 11
* Naoya Kusakawa as WUA No. 14
* Sumireko Haruna as Baiser Dancing Girl
* Wataru Ōmae as Bellboy

## Staff

* Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
* Executive Producer: Koichi Takenaka
* Screenwriter: Shinichi Sekizawa
* Director: Takashi Tsuboshima
* Cinematographer: Kazuo Yamada
* Music Composer: Kenjiro Hirose
* Production Designer: Hiroshi Ueda
* Lighting Technician: Shinichi Ôno
* Sound Recordist: Wataru Onuma
* Photographer: Jiro Tsuchiya
* Editor: Ume Takeda
Was nach SEVENS CHALLENGE geschah!

Die Kuchenparty aus Was nach SEVENS CHALLENGE geschah!

**Was nach SEVENS CHALLENGE geschah!** ist ein Teaser für die Scoty VS Dönni Serie, der Teaser warf die alte Story nach SEVENS CHALLENGE weg und ersetzte sie durch die Scoty VS Dönni Story

## Handlung

Man sieht CreeperClone, Joe, Falcon und Scoty/Zankus wie sie Kuchen essen. Doch Scoty/Zankus ist wieder rot. Er steht auf und offenbart sich als Cemius. Eine Wache stürzt sich auf Cemius, doch Cemius krümmt Raum und Zeit wodurch eine Art Explosion ohne Explosion entsteht. Wie auch immer, die Ruinen vom Dorf aus Force bzw. CreeperClone's Lager ist nun kapput. Cemius beschwört die Nacht der puren Dunkelheit und die Monster der puren Dunkelheit. Er macht sich auf den weg ins Ende.
Witch

Dark magics can often take people. While there are those who seek such dark powers out for themselves, more often than not, there are those sad few who have been inflicted with this dark power against their will. Regardless, these cursed individuals continue on, using their dark magics for whatever purpose they see fit.
Rie Taniuchi

**Rie Taniuchi** (谷内理恵, *Taniuchi Rie*, December 12, 1938; Fukuoka {age 83} - ) is a Japanese stage and film actress. She is known for wearing Latin American makeup in dance scene at New Frontier Hotel nightclub in 1962. Rie had appeared in both Japanese and Western film where she plays the role a club dancer, restaurant waitress, and other minor characters.

Advertisemant for Sani Chateau Night Club appeared in the Bangkok World August 1966.
Kōji Tsuruta

**Eiichi Ono** (小野 榮一, *Ono Eiichi*, December 6, 1924 – June 16, 1987), better known by his stage name **Kōji Tsuruta** (鶴田 浩二, *Tsuruta Kōji*), was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His wife Teruko Nakao and his daughter, Sayaka Tsuruta, are both actresses.

## Kōji Tsuruta

### Occupation

Actor
Singer

### Genres

Movies
TV drama
Stage

### Family

Sayaka Tsuruta (daughter)
Hokuto Manabu (eldest son)
Saiju Kiyomoto (younger son)
Ukon Onoe II (grandson)

## Career

Accomplished actor and singer, one of Japan’s earliest idols following WWII. Although he longed to leave his mark as a film actor, he was always more popular as a talented singer for Victor records. Tsuruta was born out of wedlock as his parents’ families did not approve the marriage, and both his mother and stepfather spent long periods of time away from home at work or, in the case of the stepfather, gambling. He joined an acting troupe at age 14, but at age 19 he was drafted into the war, serving as a navy pilot until the war’s end in 1945.

Tsuruta joined Shochiku studios after the war and immediately shot to fame as a result of his handsome appearance and vocal talents. In 1953 he received even more publicity when he turned down the studio’s recommendation to form an on-screen couple with actress-singer Misora Hibari, which drew the ire of the Yamaguchi *yakuza* (of all people!) and culminated in a brutal ambush on Tsuruta at an Osaka hotel. Tsuruta escaped by hopping on the back of a passing car and was treated for gashes to his head and hands. Despite this episode, Tsuruta was not cowed by the *yakuza* and continued acting undeterred.

In the mid 50s Tsuruta appeared prominently in Hiroshi Inagaki’s *Musashi Miyamoto* trilogy, appearing in the latter two parts as Mifune’s rival. In 1958 he became an exclusive actor for Toho, but by 1960 he was negotiating a transfer to Toei. In 1963, Tsuruta began appearing with Ken Takakura in a number of popular gangster films. Unfortunately Tsuruta’s later career was marred by his incessant verbal abuse of his co-stars, and he fell out of popularity inside and outside of the industry. Tsuruta died in 1987 from lung cancer and was given a military funeral, officiated by fellow actor Ryo Ikebe.
Ei Ogawa

**Ei Ogawa** (小川英, *Ogawa Ei*, March 10, 1930; Osaka - April 27, 1994; Tokyo {age 64} ), also credited as **Hide Ogawa** (江里 明) is a Japanese screenwriter.

## Career

Graduated from the Faculty of Law at Chuo University. He studied under the screenwriter & author Keiichiro Ryu and mainly wrote many Nikkatsu action films. Ogawa was one of the people who supported the Golden Age of Nikkatsu action movies during the 1960s. From around 1970, he shifted his main activity to TV dramas, and in "Taiyo ni Hoero!", he was involved from the beginning to the end of the program, and mainly played the role of supervising and revising the scenario. In parallel with this, Ogawa has written numerous drama scripts in a wide range of genres such as action, suspense, and historical drama. At the end of the 1960s, he joined the video production group "Jack Production" with Takashi Tsuboshima, Yasuo Tanami, Katsuki Iwauchi and others.

In addition, Ogawa presided over the private school "Eijuku" for training scenario writers, and produced many writings.
George A. Furness

**George A. Furness** (ジョージ・A・ファーネス, *Jōji A fānesu*, March 16, 1896 - April 2, 1985) is a former American soldier and lawyer. He was rank major during World War Two. At the Tokyo Trial of 1946-1948, Furness served as the defense counsel for Mamoru Shigemitsu.

## Career

A former soldier and lawyer residing in Japan during the 50s and 60s. He retired from the army as a Major. His was well known in Japan for serving as defense counsel for Mamoru Shigemitsu, a war-time Japanese politician, and Admiral Soemu Toyoda, during the Tokyo Trials.

Despite Shigemitsu’s opposition to the war, he was disliked by the Soviet Union, who insisted he be put on trial for war crimes. Shigemitsu’s lighter sentence was attributed to Furness’ defense. The two became personal friends, and Shigemitsu helped Furness setup his own law practice in Japan. Toyoda was the only member of the Japanese military to be acquitted of all charges, thanks to Furness’ defense.

Furness’ popularity earned him the opportunity to appear on screen in small parts, typically playing Western dignitaries. Indeed, while not trained as an actor, Furness possessed an eloquence and dignity that resulted in some naturally remarkable performances, especially when compared to other English speaking “actors” living in Japan at the time. He spoke very little Japanese, delivering at most one line of Japanese dialogue in The Mysterians (1957).
Ultraman

**Ultraman** (ウルトラマン, *Urutoraman*) is a fictional superhero and is the first tokusatsu hero launched by the Ultra Series and by extension, Tsuburaya Productions. His appearance in the entertainment world helped spawn the Kyodai Hero genre with countless shows such as *Godman* and *Iron King*.

Ultraman first appeared as the titular character alongside his human host Shin Hayata in the 1966–1967 Japanese television series, *Ultraman* which ran for 39 episodes. Following *Ultraman's* success, Tsuburaya created another Kyodai hero series still as part of their Ultra Series project, *Ultra Seven*. While both series shared the same genre with very similar heroes, there was originally no relations between the two. It was not until *The Return of Ultraman* was created four years later in 1971 that both Ultraman and Ultra Seven came together into the same story. This event cemented Tsuburaya Productions' decision to have the Ultra Series continue to follow the trend of focusing on an Ultraman with each new entry. The original red-and-silver giant hero himself enjoyed a long series of popularity and has continued to appear in various works in the Ultra Series. Apart from that, he also has a lot of popularity trademarks which make him memorable to this day: his Color Timer, the Specium Ray stance and his famous cry "Shuwatch" (シュワッチ, *Shuwatchi*).

In the series, Ultraman's grunts and his iconic shout "Shuwatch" were provided by Masao Nakasone (中曽根雅夫, *Nakasone Masao*), who would later voice him as an actual character in episode 33 during his fight with Alien Mefilas. His dialogue in episodes 1 and 39 were provided by Hisashi Kondō (近藤久, *Kondō Hisashi*) while in episode 15, he was voiced by Koji Ishizaka (石坂 浩二, *Ishizaka Kōji*), the narrator of episodes 1 to 19. In subsequent appearances, Ultraman reuses Masao's grunt while his voice being provided by Susumu Kurobe (Shin Hayata's actor) or just simply being speechless during the screen time. Ultraman's suit actor was Bin Furuya (古谷敏, *Furuya Bin*) during the original season. He would later went on to portray Ultra Guard member Amagi, one of the characters in the later series, *Ultra Seven*. Ultraman appeared in later works of the Ultra Series played by various voice and suit actors. Although Susumu Kurobe did reprise his role as Hayata or provided the voice of Ultraman himself at times (though his grunts were still reused from the late Masao Nakasone) but there are other occasions where he was voiced by other voice actors.

The Ultraman brand generated $7.4 billion in merchandising revenue from 1966 to 1987, equivalent to more than $17 billion adjusted for inflation. Ultraman was the world's third top-selling licensed character in the 1980s, largely due to his popularity in Asia.
Yatarō Kurokawa

**Yatarō Kurokawa** (黒川 弥太郎, *Kurokawa Yatarō*, November 15, 1910; Yokohama City, Kanagawa – June 23, 1984; Chiyoda City, Tokyo {age 74} ) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared more than 228 films from 1935 to 1971. His birth name is Kiyotaka Kurokawa (黒川 清隆).

## Life & Career

In 1933, Kurokawa entered Shinkokugeki, a new national drama. His stage name was based on novelist Shin Hasegawa from "Yataro Kasa" and based on Kan Shimozawa's original novel.

In 1935, he was selected by Chief Editor Toru Suzuki of the Bungei Shunju magazine who was looking for a star to replace Chiezō Kataoka and entered the Nikki Kyoto Studio. Since then, he has been active as a historical drama star. In 1937, Kurokawa was transferred to Toho and starred here as well.

After that, he was convened and became a sergeant of the Imperial Japanese Army.

After the war, he became one of the central figures in the establishment of Shintoho. Transferred to Daiei in 1952 and to Toei in 1959, Kurokawa played an active role in the leading and semi-starring historical drama. From the mid-1960s (1960s), he has appeared in many TV historical dramas.

His former wife was Kariko Tamamo, a 22nd gen member of the Takarazuka Revue.

On April 23, 1984, he collapsed during the rehearsal of the new national drama "Kunisada Chuji Ippon Sword" at the Asakusa Public Hall and was taken to Mitsui Memorial Hospital, where he was diagnosed with haemorrhagic stroke and was hospitalized, but on the morning of June 23, 1984, he died from an intracerebral hemorrhage at the age of 74.