Interpol Code 8

Kokusai himitsu keisatsu Shirei dai 8-gō
Directed byToshio Sugie (en)
Written byEi Ogawa
Moriyuki Mafuji
Produced byReiji Miwa
Tomoyuki Tanaka (en)
StarringTatsuya Mihashi (en)
Makoto Satō (en)
Yosuke Natsuki (en)
Kumi Mizuno (en)
Akiko Wakabayashi (en)
Jerry Ito (en)
CinematographyTaiichi Kankura
Music byYoshiyuki Kôzu
Distributed byToho (en)
Release date
  • August 31, 1963 (1963-08-31)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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 ([1]), 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

※ Non-credited

Staff

Simultaneous screening