Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin

**Kureji sakusen: Kudabare! Musekinin** (クレージー作戦 くたばれ!無責任, *Operation Crazy! Irresponsible*) is a 1963 Japanese comedy film directed by Takashi Tsuboshima as his first film in the series and starring the Crazy Cats as their second film in the Crazy Film series. The movie was shot in color and cinemascope (TohoScope). Tsuboshima also wrote the screenplay for Hawai no wakadaishô and of course directed The Story of a Photo Reporter: Bet Your Life at the Moment with cinematographer Seiichi Endo filmed the scenes in Josei jishin (directed by Jun Fukuda) back in 1962.

## Plot

At the Tsurugame Confectionery meeting, Mr. Ishiguro's idea was to launch a new soft drink called Hustle Cola, which he had been researching for the perfect soda flavors many years ago. Then salesman Taro, with a chalk shobo expression, gradually rushed up like Popeye while eating cans of spinach. Since then, it has been highly successful in expelling small acts of violence on commuter buses.

However, this cola was also disapproved for marketing because it contained some type of stimulant, and it was decided to make and sell a regular cola without the extract. But Taro is still a busy man and proved that his soda would be a commercial success. He supported Osawa, the section chief, to be appointed director of the new company. Finally, "Hustle Caller Sales Co., Ltd." was established. and the Sudara employees gathered to do the work.

The members are Bonyari Yasukawa, Playboy Ishii, Bakuchi and the feisty Kizuka, the classic perpetual employee Sakurada, and Kotani, who is excited about the new job with elevator employee Minako. Seven of his workers rushed in with all their spirits, but were defeated by a competitor's beverage company and continued to faulted in the soda industry. Knowing this, CEO Ishiguro planned to cover the expenses of the mismanaged headquarters with the new company and look the shareholders in the eye. Taro used Keiko, a Dai Tokyo Shoji switchboard operator, whom he met on the bus, to whisper "Hustle Caller" from the exchange table to the president and underwent a psychological operation.

Unsurprisingly, President Hatanaka was entrusted with the meeting at Bar Hustle and signed a sales contract with him. A busy caller who takes off on the beach at the corner of the street. By the time the label was put on the last of the queues that are being produced more and more, production was forced to stopped due to a mismanagement order at the company. There was a tough condition that production could continue if 50 million products were acquired. Once again, a difficult problem gripped for seven people.

## Cast

* Hitoshi Ueki as Taro Tanaka
* Hajime Hana as Ushimatsu Ōsawa
* Kei Tani as Tamio Kotani
* Hiroshi Inuzuka as Genji Kizuka
* Shin Yasuda as Yasukawa
* Senri Sakurai as Sakurada
* Êtarô Ishibashi as Ishii
* Mie Hama as Keiko Maekawa
* Yôko Fujiyama as Minako Kubota
* Akemi Kita as Reiko Kono
* Keiko Awaji as Akiko
* Kyū Sazanka as Managing Director Ishiguro
* Gen Shimizu as Shigeru Oeyama
* Toyohiko Sata as Executive Officer Kuramochi
* Ken Uehara as President Hatanaka
* Chieko Nakakita as Shizuko Hatanaka
* Shigeki Ishida as General Manager
* Machiko Kitagawa as Yuriko Osawa
* Kenzô Tabu as Kanamaru Branch Manager
* Eijirō Tōno as President Iwashita
* Sachio Sakai as Hatta
* Toyoko Uryû as Yukiko Iwashita
* Noriko Sengoku as Otane
* Shoichi Hirose as Man at the bus stop
* Yasuhisa Tsutsumi as Super Chief
* Haruya Sakamoto as Taxi driver
* Yukihiko Gondo as Janitor at the cleaning shop
* Kazuo Suzuki as General Store clerk Denbei
* Yoshie Kihira as Supermarket clerk
* Kyorô Sakurai as The chief of the market
* Yuki Shimizu as Turkish daughter
* Yûko Shibaki as Hakone geisha
* Mika Koike as Telephone operator
* Kōji Iwamoto, Yasuhiko Saijô, Toshitsugu Suzuki, Chôtarô Tôgin, Wataru Ōmae, & Yasuzo Okawa as Thugs at the pool

## Staff

* Producers: Shin Watanabe, Eisaburo Ando
* Director: Takashi Tsuboshima
* Screenwriter: Yasuo Tanami
* Cinematographer: Seiichi Endô
* Editor: Ume Takeda
* Production Designer: Kazuo Ogawa
* 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), Yoshinori Wada (third assistant director), Kunihiko Watanabe (second assistant director)
* Sound Effects Editor: Hisashi Shimonaga
* Special Effects: Hiroshi Matsuda

## Songs

* "Hass Roy" (ハッスルホイ, *Hassu ruhoi*)

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Hitoshi Ueki

* "Auto Miwa March Trumpet" (オート三輪進軍ラッパ, *Ōto miwa shingun rappa*)

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Hitoshi Ueki

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

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Crazy Cats

* "Slap! Irresponsible" (くたばれ！無責任, *Kutabare! Musekinin*)

Lyrics: Yukio Aoshima

Composer: Hiroaki Hagiwara

Performer: Crazy Cats

## References

* In this film, most of the scenes are shot in color and posters, also say "total natural color", but some scenes are monochrome because of the intention of director Tsuboshima's production. (according to an audio commentary from director Takashi Tsuboshima, a DVD audio bonus for this movie).
* "Hustle Cola" appears in the film is a fictitious beverage, but in parallel with this, the actual Pepsi Cola and advertisements are also appearing as part of product placement (Pepsi was handled in Japan at that time). The company name and product name of "Japanese Beverage" would also appear in the dialogue).
* Ken Uehara, who plays the role of President Hatanaka of Dai Tokyo Shoji, told Director Tsuboshima, "I was tired of being struck by the second piece," and enjoyed appearing in a comedy movie with a beard as he said in an audio commentary in the DVD bonus. Uehara also proposed the so-called Zuzuben dialogue, and there was a desire to "let me do it with the Zuzuben" (from the audio commentary above). By the way, Uehara also played a fraudster who occasionally speaks with Zuzuben in his debut film "Port of Flowers" (1943) directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and produced by Shochiku).

## Simultaneous screening

"The Lost World of Sinbad" (大盗賊, *Daitōzoku*, lit. *The Great Bandit*)

* Screenplay: Takeshi Kimura, Shinichi Sekizawa / Special Effects Director: Eiji Tsuburaya / Director: Senkichi Taniguchi / Starring: Toshiro Mifune