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All movies seen on 07/10/2019

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The Killing Bottle (1967)

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Action | Adventure | Science Fiction

Overview

In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of Buddhabal. ISP Agents Carter and Kitami are assigned to the case. When the Prime Minister arrives in Tokyo for a friendship visit, Carter and Kitami are on hand to protect him. On hand, too, are assorted ZZZ blackguards. Several attempts on the Prime Minister’s life fail, until finally the ZZZ introduces a new device designed to eliminate not only the Prime Minister but the ISP Agents as well: THE KILLING BOTTLE, then, is a pocket-sized container filled with a substance that can expand to thousands of times its size and throttle its victim, then disappear leaving only the corpse.

Length 93 minutes

Actors

Tatsuya Mihashi | Nick Adams | Makoto Satō | Kumi Mizuno | Annu Mari | Akihiko Hirata | Yoshio Tsuchiya | Tetsu Nakamura | Jun Tazaki | Hideyo Amamoto | Tetsuo Hasegawa | Ryuji Kita | Sachio Sakai | Kazuo Yokoyama | Shôji Ôki | Kiyoshi Nishikawa | Yasushi Yokoyama | Tatsuo Mizuki

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Wow that was a blast. A Toho secret agent flick I hadn’t heard of until DKUTV programmed it for Nick Adams night (celebrating his birthday July 10, 1931 today). Sadly it was without subtitles so a lot of the nuance is lost. Fortunately if you know the plot it’s rather easy to follow the basic plot points after establishing the heroes and villains. That said, I’d love to have a proper release of this. It’s better than Fukuda’s Ironfinger/GoldenEyes flicks.

Great to see so many Toho regulars here. I need to update TMDb bc they leave out several of the popular folks like Akihiko Hirata, Yoshio Tsuchiya and Hideyo Amamoto, to name a few.

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