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What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)

Directed by Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi

Comedy | Action

Most recently watched by krazykat

Overview

In comic Woody Allen’s film debut, he took the Japanese action film “International Secret Police: Key of Keys” and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.

Length 80 minutes

Actors

Tatsuya Mihashi | Akiko Wakabayashi | Mie Hama | Tadao Nakamaru | Susumu Kurobe | Woody Allen | China Lee | John Sebastian | Zal Yanovsky | Steve Boone | Joe Butler | Frank Buxton | Louise Lasser | Julie Bennett | Len Maxwell | Mickey Rose | Bryna Wilson | Hideyo Amamoto | Shunji Kasuga | Shôji Ôki | Sachio Sakai | Makoto Satō | Tetsu Nakamura | Osman Yusuf | Hans Horneff | Haruo Nakajima | Yutaka Oka | Yasuhiko Saijô

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
11/15/2020TVBroadcastOther5 stars
11/16/2019ComputerBroadcastOther6 stars
01/18/2013TVDVDLibrary6.5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Since this followed The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers in the DKUTV birthday celebration for Mie Hama I just decided to let it roll while I was sorting trash. Didn’t realize I did the exact same thing last year for the same Mie Hama tribute via DKUTV. I dislike this movie a little more on each viewing; it’s so fucking racist and offensive. I’m sure Woody Allen thought this was super clever at the time but it’s a lot of blue jokes that don’t land.

Sure, having these excellent actors is great but not when they’re dubbed saying playground jokes. I am making it a mission to track down the original film Key of Keys even if it’s not subtitled.

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