Counterfeit Japanese dollars are connected to a large-scale underground drug organization. An action masterpiece with Akira Kobayashi, in the role of an international secret police officer who challenges organizations throughout the world.
Direction
Nakahira's kinetic framing prefigures the New Wave explosion.
Acting
Kobayashi's stoic swagger defines Japanese screen cool.
Cinematography
Scope compositions that waste zero frame real estate.
Director
Kō Nakahira
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nikkatsu Studio's 'borderless action' cycle deliberately aped Bond films while injecting specifically Japanese anxieties about postwar economic corruption. This sits right in that sweet spot.
Kō Nakahira had just returned from directing in Hong Kong, hence the unusually authentic location work that elevates this above typical studio-bound contemporaries.
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