Kokusai himitsu keisatsu Shirei dai 8-gō (国際秘密警察 指令第8号, International Secret Police: Interpol Code 8), also known as Interpol Code 8, is a 1963 Japanese comedy-spy film directed by Toshio Sugie (en). It is the first installment of five films in the Kokusai himitsu keisatsu series, a parody of James Bond-style (en) spy movies.
Plot
A government official was killed in Saigon (en), South Vietnam (), and Akimoto, a Japanese trading company employee who was in contact with the Vietnamese government (en), disappeared. ISP Jiro Kitami was dispatched to Japan from the International Secret Police Headquarters in Paris (en), claiming that Rudolf Kent, the German-American merchant of death, was involved in this incident. Kitami, along with Akimoto's colleague Natsuo Ezaki, stands up to defeat the Kent Gang and stopped them from shipping weapons (en) to the Viet Congs (en).
Cast
Tatsuya Mihashi (en) as Agent Jiro Kitami
Makoto Satō (en) as Natsuo Ezaki
Yosuke Natsuki (en) as Akimoto
Kumi Mizuno (en) as Saeko Kinomiya/Kurumiya
Akiko Wakabayashi (en) as Mie Tsugawa
Jerry Ito (en) as Rudolf Kent
Seizaburô Kawazu as Managing Director Haitani
Rie Taniuchi as Merry Sono
Kiyoshi Kodama (en) as Anzai
Tetsu Nakamura (en) as Bin Hoa
Keiichi Taki as VC leader
Shin Otomo as Tan
Jun Hamamura (en) as Nonozaki
Hisaya Ito as Tejima
Hideyo Amamoto (en) as Shū
Shōji Ōki as Tatsumi
Ed Keane as ISP Chief in Paris
Hiroshi Hasegawa as Drunk Huon
Heihachiro Okawa (en) as Quyen
Kensuke Yairo as Detective A
Kyoro Sakurai as Detective B
Tadashi Okabe as Inspector A
※ Non-credited
Akira Tani, and Chico Lourant as Kent's sailors
Shoichi Hirose (en), Koji Uruki, and Jiro Suzukawa as Viet Cong guerillas
Koji Iwamoto as Club boy
Akira Yamada, Kazuo Imai, Yasumasa Onishi, Seiji Onaka as Police officers
Sabel Jameel as Cafe master
Ikuo Kawamura, Minoru Ito, Saburo Kadowaki, Junpei Natsuki, Hiroshi Akitsu, Masaaki Tachibana, Ryoji Shimizu, Osman Yusuf, Masahide Matsushita, Kamayuki Tsubono, and Kazuo Hinata as Male onlookers at the airport Tsurue Ichimanji as a Female onlooker at the airport Matsue Ono, Yoshio Katsube, Nobuo Katsura as Train passengers Ken Echigo as Dining car waiter Keiji Sakakida, Ryutaro Amami as Club guests Ralph Jesser as Helmsman Chôtarô Tôgin as Tank truck driver Takashi Narita as a Police detective Enver Altenbay as a Foreign man at the airport
Staff
Producers: Tomoyuki Tanaka (en), Reiji Miwa
Screenwriters: Ei Ogawa, Moriyuki Mafuji
Director: Toshio Sugie (en) Cinematographer: Taiichi Kankura Composer: Yoshiyuki Kôzu Lighting Technician: Ichiro Inohara Sound Recording: Shoichi Fujinawa Still: Masao Soeda