Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
Production
Saigon location shooting looks impossibly expensive for 1963.
Costume
Kitami's suits could cut glass. Pure tailored perfection.
Director
Toshio Sugie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during actual escalation of US involvement in Vietnam, making its arms-dealer villainy hit different. Studio Toho basically made anti-war propaganda disguised as spy thriller.
Jerry Itō, who plays the villainous American Rudolf Kent, was actually born in NYC and became Toho's go-to 'foreign face'—his awkward Japanese delivery was genuine, not acting.
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